This is a meme now. Maybe we should take every projection and estimate and automatically assume that it's actually much worse.
Why do that when such projections are always wrong?
Climate change is hitting the planet faster than scientists originally thought
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Re: Climate change is hitting the planet faster than scientists originally thought
#12but um global warming...err, I mean climate change...
Because people didn't understand that an increase of overall temperature doesn't mean that the temperature increases everywhere.
It's about the overall temperature.
Therefore climate change.
Re: Climate change is hitting the planet faster than scientists originally thought
#13Latest IPCC climate report warns that rising greenhouse-gas emissions could soon outstrip the ability of many communities to adapt. ...how did the climate alarmist reports fare over the years? 1. Harvard biologist George Wald estimated that “civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.” 2. “We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival…
There is one distinction between your list and the present situation: there is a difference between the opinions of an individual scientist and scientific consensus.
Re: Climate change is hitting the planet faster than scientists originally thought
#14One of my concerns as someone who is part of the tech community is the innovation delusion. Many of us are focused on "magic pill" technology solutions to get us out of this. Things like fusion, carbon capture, electric cars, etc... As someone with an engineering background, I've been guilty of this type of thinking too. Whenever I encounter a problem I think about how I could apply technology to solve it. However, I…
I've come to believe the opposite. Expecting the whole world to give stuff up is more of a "magic" solution than developing new technology it seems.
Re: Climate change is hitting the planet faster than scientists originally thought
#15but um global warming...err, I mean climate change...
Same reason Facebook changed to Meta. When a brand’s reputation has been sullied and mocked and delegitimized as a result, often the only option is a rebrand under a completely different name.
Re: Climate change is hitting the planet faster than scientists originally thought
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Re: Climate change is hitting the planet faster than scientists originally thought
#17One of my concerns as someone who is part of the tech community is the innovation delusion. Many of us are focused on "magic pill" technology solutions to get us out of this. Things like fusion, carbon capture, electric cars, etc... As someone with an engineering background, I've been guilty of this type of thinking too. Whenever I encounter a problem I think about how I could apply technology to solve it. However, I…
I don’t understand why this is downvoted. This is exactly my perception as well: techno-optimism is dangerous, and there really is no excuse for the amount of pointless conspicuous consumption that occurs in modern life.
Re: Climate change is hitting the planet faster than scientists originally thought
#18One of my concerns as someone who is part of the tech community is the innovation delusion. Many of us are focused on "magic pill" technology solutions to get us out of this. Things like fusion, carbon capture, electric cars, etc... As someone with an engineering background, I've been guilty of this type of thinking too. Whenever I encounter a problem I think about how I could apply technology to solve it. However, I…
I've come to believe the opposite. Expecting the whole world to give stuff up is more of a "magic" solution than developing new technology it seems.
Unrealistic and magic aren’t synonymous.
In one case you are betting on something that is at best hopefully possible, while in the second case, it is quite clearly possible, it’s just not likely to happen.
Re: Climate change is hitting the planet faster than scientists originally thought
#19but um global warming...err, I mean climate change...
Because dishonest people took every cold spell and said "Ha, scientists said the globe was warming! This proves them wrong." even though anyone with a very basic comprehension would understand that increasing the amount of energy in the system through global mean temperature increases could indeed lead some areas to be occasionally cooler. In any case, the IPCC has been using "climate change" since at least 1990; htt…
Also "climate change" is a more accurate name to describe the wider issue, imo. Climates around the world are changing in many ways, not just getting warmer everywhere. Some of the effects of climate change will be some areas getting a lot drier or wetter and even some places getting colder.
Re: Climate change is hitting the planet faster than scientists originally thought
#20Latest IPCC climate report warns that rising greenhouse-gas emissions could soon outstrip the ability of many communities to adapt. ...how did the climate alarmist reports fare over the years? 1. Harvard biologist George Wald estimated that “civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.” 2. “We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival…
I too like to copy/paste lists filled with cherry picked 50-year old quotes curated by right-wing think tanks funded by ExxonMobil and the Koch Brothers.
https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/18-spectacularly-wrong-apocal...