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Humans have caused 1.5 °C of long-term global warming according to new estimates

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399 points gmays | 1 comments | 17 Nov 24 18:49 UTC | HN request time: 0.203s | source
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chriscappuccio ◴[17 Nov 24 19:29 UTC] No.42166382[source]▶
Wasn't it just a week ago we discovered that widely used models were significantly underestimating CO2 absorption by plants?
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badgersnake ◴[17 Nov 24 20:39 UTC] No.42167015[source]▶
The models may be perfect or imperfect, either way the temperature is still going up.
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thegrim33 ◴[18 Nov 24 01:00 UTC] No.42168755[source]▶
- "Models say X is happening."

- "Well, isn't there this specific problem with the model?"

- "It doesn't matter, because X is happening"

Not sure the line of logic follows there.

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1. consteval ◴[18 Nov 24 02:56 UTC] No.42169333[source]▶
The line of logic is that people attempt to push propaganda against the narrative to completely discredit it. Oil industry has been doing it from the sixties. They'll find any small mistake in the science, and say "see? They're wrong! Nothing bad will happen..."

Sure, the models might be a little too doomer. That doesn't actually change anything, and for the past ~70 years the only type this type of stuff was brought up was to deny climate change.