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Ringz ◴[] No.44461957[source]
Most climate research studies provide a range from optimistic to pessimistic outlooks on climate impacts. It would be interesting to know how the studies from the last 30 years have fared. I have the feeling that rather the pessimistic estimates have come to pass.
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1. exe34 ◴[] No.44462015[source]
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-science-p...

https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-uns-devastating-climate-...

Old articles. Nowadays I'd say there's an even stronger current against "doomerism", which acts as a force suppressing sufficiently bad news. Don't look up!

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2. BlueTemplar ◴[] No.44465462[source]
Ignoring the possibility of tipping points with self-reinforcing feedbacks is like playing with matches near a gas station.

Of course the doomers have been wrong sometimes, here predicting an ice-free Arctic in September 2015 :

https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2013/09/is-the-north-pole-n...

But I will still side with their painstaking lists of things that could go wrong, than with the insane mainstream, which mostly acts like they care first and foremost about increasing our supply of matches.

See also : https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/post-index/