half a degree of (eventual) warming relative to present isn't the end of the world. calling it that isn't reasonable or okayhttps://twitter.com/AOC/status/1087722312168812551 …
yes, 12 years to take action to ensure we get only 0.5 degrees of warming above present. not 12 years to take action to prevent the end of the world
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i suspect there's a substantial subset of her fans who interpreted her as talking about disasters that will happen literally 12 years from now
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1) I suspect you have no way of substantiating this hunch 2) an increase in the occurrence of outlier weather events is a likely result of even small increases in global temperature, so there is a very literal interpretation via which this is true
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You seem like the kind of person who would have taken great delight in pointing out that nuclear war between the US and USSR would not technically result in the end of the world because it wouldn't literally destroy the Earth's core.
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this is a fully general snark that you can use to defend any false claim
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