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Serious question: Is the worst case really a full-blown apocalypse? Or are people mostly safe if we live in a city at a high altitude? I understand that sea le
by nathan_f77 10y ago
Serious question: Is the worst case really a full-blown apocalypse? Or are people mostly safe if we live in a city at a high altitude?
I understand that sea levels will rise, we'll lose some land, have to relocate some people, and weather events will become a lot more violent and energetic. But we're not looking at human extinction?
I really have no influence over global warming, so the only thing I can do is prepare for the fallout.
- niftich 10y agoThe Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change believes: > a "runaway greenhouse effect" -- analogous to Venus -- appears to have virtually no chance of being induced by anthropogenic activities. [1] [1] http://www.ipcc.ch/meetings/session31/inf3.pdf http://www.ipcc.ch/meetings/session31/inf3.pdf
- bjourne 10y agoBut "virtually no chance" is not the same as "absolutely no chance". :/
- niftich 10y agoThey're being precise in their terminology. That line actually serves to frame the discussion in the linked paper: we won't befall the same fate as Venus, but they instead discuss other impacts that are more likely and require our consideration.