that's not what that means. words mean things. they mean the things that they mean instead of the things that they don't meanhttps://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1090091453341155328 …
i suspect the 4 degrees number comes from the rcp8.5 scenario which is on the pessimistic end of the subset of scenarios where we take no action
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i don't know if there's any official estimates of what will happen to emissions, but https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BCbVx8bCAAAOI6g.png …
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(oh 4 degrees here would be relative to recent not relative to pre-industrial)
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considering the potential consequences, doesn't it make sense to plan around the pessimistic scenario? if things are better than expected, all that was lost was, hmm, what exactly? a little GDP growth? if things are worse than expected, we get ecological collapse.
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i haven't made a single claim about policy
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