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It seems like we’re hitting all the projected points early. For example, aren’t we already at 1.5C of warming by some metrics, which was supposed to not happen
by qzw 2y ago
It seems like we’re hitting all the projected points early. For example, aren’t we already at 1.5C of warming by some metrics, which was supposed to not happen for another decade or two? If anything, I think the scientific community has been too conservative in its predictions, which in turn has caused a massive under-reaction to climate change globally. Seems to me AMOC collapse is probably a foregone conclusion.
- netsharc 2y agoI saw somewhere that a scientist explained it by saying "You don't want to appear like a kooky alarmist, so you report the numbers that you can be confident in, instead of the extreme numbers"... As for the reaction, it's a tragedy of the commons, nobody wants to give up their fly-to-Europe-to-ski-because-it's-cheaper holidays/why do they have to give it up and see all those billionaire Instagram kids flaunting about doing that on Instagram?