As one of the researchers in this article, i have to add my 2 cents, i like how this story tells the tale of this work, it was challenging and invigorating. Th

As one of the researchers in this article, i have to add my 2 cents, i like how this story tells the tale of this work, it was challenging and invigorating. The long-term predictions were always provided as "no way this can happen" but if nothing changes about people's behaviors, and these trends continue, this is what the world would look like. Always meant as a guide to how serious the problem we were facing was, never as an actual prediction. I second @dmlorenzetti and their comment. Real-time support of decision making and guiding policies is more about rough estimates of things being better or worse and if your lucky a way to rank the possible actions on that scale. Decision-makers are grateful for any qualifications and estimations they can get in the uncertain world which they are operating in.