“I expect a semi-dystopian future with substantial pain and suffering for the people of the Global South,” one expert said.

  • Emmie@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    It’s not that outlandish as one would instinctively think considering we have no idea why warming accelerated so much in the last years. It’s a good reason to act, among many others. However before that would happen obviously humanity would be long gone anyway.

    Also from interesting bits as of now theoretically our GHG ppm is the same as when there was no ice on Greenland and sea level 10 m higher. It seems we are now merely waiting for the delayed reaction because even if we would stop all emissions we would also have to remove the GHGs to avoid it.

    Another interesting thing is that scientists are intentionally underplaying some things to not appear ‚alarmist’ because it was figured out that this would have opposite and unhelpful effect to climate action. Except for James Hansen.

    In any case it’s useful to know what is the absolute worst scenario and what huge GHG numbers do to the planet(s).