• uphillbothways@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    This rule is actually “an order of magnitude best estimate”, which means it’s more of a range, somewhere between 0.1 to 10 deaths per 1000 tons of carbon burned.

    That leaves a lot of room for scenarios even more dire than the one outlined here.

    “When climate scientists run their models and then report on them, everybody leans toward being conservative, because no one wants to sound like Doctor Doom,” explains Pierce.

    “We’ve done that here too and it still doesn’t look good.”

    Translation: 10 billion people will die.

    2nd translation: Almost everyone will die.

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      2 years ago

      Translation: 10 billion people will die.

      No. Between 100 million and 10 billion deaths will be caused by anthropogenic global warming over a period of roughly 100 years.

      2nd translation: Almost everyone will die.

      On a long enough timeline, everyone dies.

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        2 years ago

        Said every apologist ever. Look around you man. It’s already pretty bad out there. How much worse does it need to be before you stop downplaying the situation?