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They also ruled out the worst case scenario, but this doesn't sell equally well...

semaj111 6y ago
It makes sense to phrase it like that when politics worldwilde neglected the issue presumably hoping for best case scenarios.
- devcouvert 6y ago
  >It makes sense to phrase it like that No, it's lying by omission.
  - makomk 6y ago
    Especially given that the media has been pushing a narrative that the worst-case scenarioes are our actual reality (or even worse-than-worst-case ones), so ruling them out is in fact incredibly significant - it's effectively ruling out what readers of articles like this one are likely to expect to actually happen. (To be fair, it looks like Bloomberg are slightly better than some of the rest of the press in that they seem to have rejected stuff like RCP8.5 that has already been falsified by what's actually happened, rather than pretending it matches reality.)
- imtringued 6y ago
  "Best case scenario" is a moving target when you do nothing.
- goatinaboat 6y ago
  It makes sense to phrase it like that when politics worldwilde neglected the issue presumably hoping for best case scenarios. Constantly banging the drum of the worst case scenario has lead to doom fatigue. That is the only explanation for the current apathy.
devcouvert 6y ago
>They also ruled out the worst case scenario, but this doesn't sell equally well... Fear sells better.
- netsharc 6y ago
  An imaginary doctor tells you: "You have between 2-10 years left to live." A few months later: "Ah, we have an update, you have 4-8 years." Yay?
solstice 6y ago
True but from what I understand of the matter (which isn't that much tbf), +2.3C is predicted to be already pretty fucking horrible, to say nothing of +3C...
- pauljurczak 6y ago
  +3C still sounds much better than +4.5C, which was the upper bound mentioned there.
  - ThePowerOfFuet 6y ago
    It was +3.9.
yogthos 6y ago
That doesn't make the scenarios we're headed for any less horrific.

It makes sense to phrase it like that when politics worldwilde neglected the issue presumably hoping for best case scenarios.

devcouvert 6y ago
>It makes sense to phrase it like that No, it's lying by omission.
- makomk 6y ago
  Especially given that the media has been pushing a narrative that the worst-case scenarioes are our actual reality (or even worse-than-worst-case ones), so ruling them out is in fact incredibly significant - it's effectively ruling out what readers of articles like this one are likely to expect to actually happen. (To be fair, it looks like Bloomberg are slightly better than some of the rest of the press in that they seem to have rejected stuff like RCP8.5 that has already been falsified by what's actually happened, rather than pretending it matches reality.)
imtringued 6y ago
"Best case scenario" is a moving target when you do nothing.
goatinaboat 6y ago
It makes sense to phrase it like that when politics worldwilde neglected the issue presumably hoping for best case scenarios. Constantly banging the drum of the worst case scenario has lead to doom fatigue. That is the only explanation for the current apathy.

devcouvert 6y ago

>They also ruled out the worst case scenario, but this doesn't sell equally well... Fear sells better.

netsharc 6y ago
An imaginary doctor tells you: "You have between 2-10 years left to live." A few months later: "Ah, we have an update, you have 4-8 years." Yay?

solstice 6y ago

True but from what I understand of the matter (which isn't that much tbf), +2.3C is predicted to be already pretty fucking horrible, to say nothing of +3C...

pauljurczak 6y ago
+3C still sounds much better than +4.5C, which was the upper bound mentioned there.
- ThePowerOfFuet 6y ago
  It was +3.9.

yogthos 6y ago

That doesn't make the scenarios we're headed for any less horrific.