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Climate change may be escalating so fast it could be 'game over'
- nabla9 10y ago>In a paper in the journal Science Advances, they said the actual range could be between 4.78C to 7.36C by 2100, Median age of voter in the west is something like 45 years. Almost all voters living today have experienced personal 'game over' by then. The pace of escalating is too slow to put people into emergency mode. We are like frogs in the hot water. It's so warm and nice here.
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- vivekd 10y agoJust so I understand this right - from my reading of the article, the researcher is saying that the Earth is currently in a warm interglacial phase and the warm temperatures make it more sensitive to green house gases. From what I can find the article didn't define what it meant by "more sensitive"
- kafkaesq 10y agoChanged "may be escalating" to "escalating" in the title to meet character limit. In any case, the 'could' part upholds the overall conditional aspect of the original.
- btdiehr 10y agoThat's a grotesque misrepresentation of the article to change the title in that manner.
- ninkendo 10y agoThere's already a "could be" in the title, it seems redundant to put two may/could be's. You don't need to say that something "may be X so much that it could be Y", when you can either say "may be X so much that Y", or "is X so much that it could be Y".
- Fluid_Mechanics 10y agoThis is clearly the most grotesque and irresponsible headline I've read all week. /s
- btdiehr 10y agoYes because it's missing a quantifier which completely changes the meaning of the title. Only controversial to call this out because it's a climate change article thus impervious to any and all criticism obviously.
- mac01021 10y agoIt might have been more faithful to the meaning of the article to remove "scientists warn" from the end.