what's the best rigorous case for the plausibility of runaway / extinction-level climate change?
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which talks about large parts of the world becoming uninhabitable, but (1) seems to be based on a high earth system sensitivity estimate
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(2) seems to assume very high co2 emissions for a very long time, (3) talks about effects that are centuries or millennia away
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and (4) rules out a wholly uninhabitable like venus scenario
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weird to me how common global warming extinction seems to be in the public imagination compared to how absent from science literature
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Maybe this, tho it’s obv highly disputed https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathrate_gun_hypothesis …
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how do you get anything close to extinction out of that though?
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but see http://julesandjames.blogspot.com/2007/10/climate-sensitivity-is-6c.html … which is from earlier in time but looks like it's responding to an earlier version or something
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