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Careful about the “end of civilization”, global warming is the most important challenge of our generation but media outlet sensationalism exaggerate a lot of th
by thatfrenchguy 7y ago
Careful about the “end of civilization”, global warming is the most important challenge of our generation but media outlet sensationalism exaggerate a lot of things (notably the clathrate gun and other things, which are not widely accepted).
Read the last IPCC reports instead of randos from the internet: https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/ https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/
- CalRobert 7y agoThanks - my concern is that the IPCC reports appear to be too conservative, possibly not modeling feedback effects enough. We're tracking around the worst case scenarios presented in the 2015 report so far.
- thatfrenchguy 7y agoIt is of course a valid concern, but reading those reports page-to-page don't show too much conservatism to me (as in, they expose how bad a situation we are in while being not-too-catastrophic). You may also want to read the individual papers that are backing those reports, they're also super informative`.