• hector@lemmy.today
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    1 day ago

    There was never any question, the powerful have shouted down any more honest forecasts. Even the most pessimistic ones don’t take into account the biggest feedbacks, like methane and co2 from the permafrost getting released.

    To be clear, there is no predicting it, there are interconnected variables that we don’t have numbers for, so it’s impossible to accurately predict anything no matter how much computing power they devote to it.

    What has been undeniably true in reality where we ignore the ivy league experts lying to us to protect their obscene wealth, is it will happen quicker than the models we are shown predict.

    But worry not, we won’t have to worry about it too much because the instability will give the worst people the ability to take over our societies and throw us into a dark ages first.

    • teslekova@sh.itjust.works
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      18 hours ago

      Mostly correct. One note: the experts have been saying it’s worse than the IPCC (or any government) says it is since the 90s. The experts, in universities and legit research institutions all around the world, have long known this is going to be a shit show, and they have already accepted that we did not do what was needed to avoid impacts on the world that have a good chance to end human civilisation and kill billions of people. It’s not a slam dunk, btw, there are still ways to get away with, say, only hundreds of millions dead from starvation, war, disease, heatstroke, etc.

      But no expert who has been paying attention thinks we’re getting out of this without at least that. I know a few of them, they’ve actually done their grieving already because they know we didn’t stop it when we could, and they know what’s coming.

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      22 hours ago

      The “best” part is that none of these end up taking into account the fact we’ll cook ourselves/the planet from excess heat waste long before climate change can finish the job

      And this was before ai started to speed up the job