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It has to be depressing to persuade people that it's important by scaring them and removing all hints of possible ways out other than reducing fossil fuel use.
by averagewall 9y ago
It has to be depressing to persuade people that it's important by scaring them and removing all hints of possible ways out other than reducing fossil fuel use. Reality won't be as bad as the impression the news and climate change battlers give.
Eg the IPCC predicts a 1 foot sea level rise in 100 years. Watching the news, you'd think it was 6 ft. Those are both extreme values due to uncertainty.
- throwaway5752 9y agohttps://sealevel.nasa.gov/understanding-sea-level/projections/empirical-projections https://sealevel.nasa.gov/understanding-sea-level/projection... It's actually 1-6 feet in 80 years, now, and current models predict slower rise that is being currently observed, ie, risk to upside.