14 pointsby littlexsparkee2 hours ago5 comments
  • 38 minutes ago
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  • jmclnxan hour ago
    I cannot get to the site, but:

    At 3C ? Probably and maybe more, but it is hard to know. But I think we are headed to 4C with the way things are playing out.

    But there is one variable, Nuclear War. I expect that will happen as the climate gets worse and worse. That war could drop us into a cold streak. After that ? Everyone gone ?

    This book could give us a kind of a preview into what we are headed for. But in your mind replace nitrogen with CO2

    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1189676.The_Nitrogen_Fix

  • nsxwolfan hour ago
    It's cold, but not that cold.
  • alephnerdan hour ago
    We need better models.

    The reality is we are on track to break 2C by 2050, and there is nothing that can be done about it. 3C is a real risk later in the century.

    Tens to hundreds of millions will be impacted so a realistic range needs to be calculated such that risk mitigation can begin.

    • littlexsparkee18 minutes ago
      Aren't we looking at more like ~2036 for 2C? El Nino ratches by .2 degrees and then current warming rate is .3C per decade so roughly a decade away. This doesn't even take into account feedback loops.
  • readthenotes130 minutes ago
    I like how the paper basically says it's all BS based on people saying what they want to say regardless of what their science says.

    I do not like how they have to use circumspect language say the emperor has no clothes...

    "The four billion figure is an educated worst-case estimate, not a robust scientific projection."

    The only reason "educated" is plausible here is because the people making the silly wild ass guesses have been edumacated; too bad it's not pertinent to the guess.