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That 3°C by 2050 figure comes from one particular group of German scientists. It is not the broad consensus, which is that we'll reach 3°C by around 2100. Eith
by jfengel 2mo ago
That 3°C by 2050 figure comes from one particular group of German scientists. It is not the broad consensus, which is that we'll reach 3°C by around 2100.
Either scenario is obviously terrible and we need to begin to deal with it firmly and immediately. But I thought it was worth making clear that "the scientists" here only a small set, not the community as a whole, who have an only-slightly-less dire scenario.
- Fricken 2mo agoThe IPCC consensus is limited to what politicians can agree on. Scientists all over have been observing the acceleration of climate change for some time, but it has until now been difficult to tease real change out of conventional temperature variabilities. The newsworthy part is that statisticians now have enough data to claim with strong certainty that warming has significantly accelerated.