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1. lucb1e ◴[] No.37373851[source]
The page conveniently/willfully

- misinterprets statements like "we have X years to do Y or we will have set something in motion that later causes Z" as if that means "Z will happen on January 1st CurrentYear+X";

- misinterprets the words "may" and "could", which typically indicate an extreme but possible scenario, since that's what the media wants to quote, not what they actually expect to happen;

- does not take into account when a behavioral change lead to it not coming true (see ozone layer); and

- exclusively shows unlikely claims, at least since the greenhouse gas emission problem became known in the ~90s, rather than looking at a legit prediction from any scientific paper in the last decades for example.

Page footer:

> A project of the #LearnToCode Initiative.

I suppose that settles the debate of whether we should teach everyone to code. Or maybe we didn't teach them enough, as CurrentYear+X != Z is too hard to understand still

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2. easytiger ◴[] No.37378401[source]
Alas in making those statements the people doing so wish to spend large sums of money on projects they feel will mitigate their assertions.