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Environment & Energy

mackdaddy

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3. I read the article and the abstract. I try to at least go over the actual paper if available.

Reply to OKIsItJustMe (Reply #2)

Tue Aug 1, 2017, 09:35 PM

Aug 2017

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There is some risk that warming this century cannot be kept to 1.5 degrees C beyond pre-industrial temperatures. In fact, there is a 13 percent chance we are already committed to 1.5-C warming by 2100.

My uneducated estimate is there is a 13% chance that any human will still be alive in 2100. I guess that makes me either a "doomer" or a realist, maybe both.

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An inevitable warm-up for Earth [View all] OKIsItJustMe Aug 2017 OP

This is behind a paywall, but 1.5C by 2100 is pretty much Bullshit. mackdaddy Aug 2017 #1

The OP is not behind a pay wall, only the paper OKIsItJustMe Aug 2017 #2

I read the article and the abstract. I try to at least go over the actual paper if available. mackdaddy Aug 2017 #3

I believe, of the two, that would make you a "doomer" OKIsItJustMe Aug 2017 #4