Every time the IPCC report is issued the actual global warming is drastically worse than the worst case scenario in the previous report. We're accelerating in to a brick wall.
I read years ago that it's because the IPCC was playing politics. They figured if they went in fully on the scale of the problem, govts wouldn't act so it would be better to ease them into it by painting a problematic, but rosier picture of the situation and well...
I remember when +1.5C was a "by the time you reach old age" thing and not a "by this summer and you're not reaching old age bitch lol" thing
+1.5C limit+2.0C limit+2.5C limitI think we are just a few years away from lib media claiming that... Climate engineering will save us!
The funny thing about the boiling frog trope is that it's false for frogs. They simply jump away. But the trope certainly is true for people.
IIRC the frog idiom holds true for lobotomized frogs. Which, given two presidents in a row have had dementia...
Go human beings! We're holding our own against lobotomized frogs!
But people only have another slightly less boiling pot to jump in to
We've redefined old age as 35.
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Every time the IPCC report is issued the actual global warming is drastically worse than the worst case scenario in the previous report. We're accelerating in to a brick wall.
I read years ago that it's because the IPCC was playing politics. They figured if they went in fully on the scale of the problem, govts wouldn't act so it would be better to ease them into it by painting a problematic, but rosier picture of the situation and well...