Monday, 9 August 2021

Explainer: The U.N. climate report's five futures - decoded

quote [ The U.N. climate panel report released Monday on the physical science of climate change uses five possible scenarios for the future. ]

The UN's IPCC Sixth Assessment has been released. Good news is if we drop Capitalism and do a full blown Communism right now, this very minute, we might be able to avoid the worst impacts of Climate Change.

Any second now....
[SFW] [environment & nature] [+1 Insightful]
[by steele]
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steele said @ 2:38pm GMT on 9th August
And just a reminder that the IPCC reports are always conservative because their first drafts are pruned by business backed government leaders. They also don't take into account natural feedback loops and whatnot. Things are much worse than the report is putting out. For example, the report states that the arctic will likely be ice free once by 2050, despite looking like this:



2030 seems much more likely, at the latest.


steele said @ 3:20pm GMT on 9th August
And just a reminder that the IPCC reports are always conservative because their first drafts are pruned by business backed government leaders. They also don't take into account natural feedback loops and whatnot. Things are much worse than the report is putting out.


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steele said @ 2:38pm GMT on 9th August
And just a reminder that the IPCC reports are always conservative because their first drafts are pruned by business backed government leaders. They also don't take into account natural feedback loops and whatnot. Things are much worse than the report is putting out.



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