premium-lizard

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   by premium-lizard 5y ago

   > The uncertainty bracket is large. I completely agree. It's so large that it's expected that any near-term predictions will be false, and that's what we see. By now there's a huge graveyard of false climate doomsday
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   by premium-lizard 5y ago

   > No, but they definitely have the scientific knowledge to understand the scale at which they pump CO2 into the atmosphere and the first-order consequences this has. Check your hypothesis. There have been times in the past when CO2 went
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   by premium-lizard 5y ago

   > as well as knowledge of the issue among oil companies Oil companies don't have any special ability to predict the future state of a complex system. > So, you'd expect a 2000-dated discourse to be slightly more alarming, ye
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   by premium-lizard 5y ago

   > Would our could? I doubt the movie expressed absolute certainty, but it was indisputably meant to be alarming. > the sea also could rise It wouldn't be surprising, since they've been rising for 20,000 years. The strange th
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   by premium-lizard 5y ago

   > I’m not aware of any system with a track record of predicting climates that far out. This is right. Nor is there going to be any such system. The climate is a complex system, meaning it's fundamentally not amenable to simulation.