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> I'd bet there's a good chance that scientists, engineers, and enterprising people will find ways to make all these dire predictions wrong. I'm generally pret

• loopz 5y ago
  The debt metaphor is good. The scientists have models that are pretty accurate, but what may end up happening is local acceleration beyond those models. What happens under the heat dome is one example, and similar effects throughout the entire weather system might also escalate. Together, with all the other bad news, people are going to feel real effects much faster than anticipated. Then they're going to vote in a narcissistic psychopath, and complain about everyone else, while blindly stepping the gas pedal through the floor. Those smart people buying countryside farms may end up seeing their land dried up after ravaging forestfires and subsequent drought. OR, people are going to wise up. Start to contribute wasting less resources, improve environment, support efforts of mitigation, taking out excess CO2, stop destruction of natural habitats, etc. OR we may be lucky, have an unexpected spell twarting the models and cooling off the land again. Just so that humanity can continue destruction of their own lands and wildlife that have stabilized the climate for 10K years. Nobody knows for sure, but the models are supposedly pretty accurate overall and there are not that many unknowns left.