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The article was so optimistic, right up until the sixth section: "The Climate Is Still Screwed".
by inetsee 11y ago
The article was so optimistic, right up until the sixth section: "The Climate Is Still Screwed".
- disposition2 11y agoLike driving down an endless highway where you can see a huge crash well down the road but you fail to lift your foot off the accelerator.
- frandroid 11y agoThe part that shocked me (and prefaced section 6) is the chart in section 2: these are all _additions_ to the current energy grid. We're still adding so much coal when we should stop building these plants right now. Not to mention the continued development of Canadian tar sands, which falls outside the electricity generation equation but is still part of the global emissions picture.
- PhasmaFelis 11y agoThe next few decades are gonna be a great time to say "I told you so." :-/
- merpnderp 11y ago19 years and 6 months with a statistically insignificant temperature trend. UAH 6.0 brings the UAH data inline with the RSS data. As the years go on, catastrophic warming seems less and less likely - or at least so the hard satellite data says. http://images.remss.com/msu/msu_time_series.html http://images.remss.com/msu/msu_time_series.html
- sitkack 11y agoI have a coral reef to sell you.
- merpnderp 11y agoYou mistake my argument. I don't doubt ocean acidification, rise in ocean levels, or global warming. My point is that the best data we have conflicts with the IPCC consensus of 4 degrees Celsius of warming by 2100. And there wasn't a single model that showed 2 decades of flat temperatures until the latest IPCC assessment, when it became obvious there were definitely 2 decades of flat temperatures.
- mturmon 11y agoAny few decades would be a great time to say that. You just have to pick the right predictions of yours to say "I told you so" about, and be silent about the incorrect ones.