A catastrophic climate event is upon us
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A catastrophic climate event is upon us
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Re: A catastrophic climate event is upon us
#2We knew the situation was bad years ago. And every year, we realise that we were optimistic.
And it feels like it will continue like this: it seems extremely unlikely that we discover that our models were actually pessimistic. When we "forget" to account for some effect, usually that effect makes it worse.
We keep confirming, over and over again, that from what we know the situation is really bad, and what we don't know makes it worse.
Re: A catastrophic climate event is upon us
#3We knew the situation was bad years ago. And every year, we realise that we were optimistic. And it feels like it will continue like this: it seems extremely unlikely that we discover that our models were actually pessimistic. When we "forget" to account for some effect, usually that effect makes it worse. We keep confirming, over and over again, that from what we know the situation is really bad, and what we don't k…
Indeed and further feedback mechanisms will only aggravate the situation…