regardless of what the answer is i don't see how you can interpret "the world ends in 12 years" as a reasonable summary of it
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charitable interpretation isn't a blanket excuse to say stuff that's completely wrong
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Replying to @VesselOfSpirit @GrumplessGrinch
She did clarify her statement, in the very tweet you're quoting it says 12 years to take action, not 12 years or we're all doomed. Reads to me as a clarification of obvious hyperbole to head off takes such as the ones upthread
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Replying to @hikikomorphism @GrumplessGrinch
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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Replying to @VesselOfSpirit @GrumplessGrinch
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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Replying to @hikikomorphism @GrumplessGrinch
yes obviously there are things that will happen 12 years from now but they're nothing vaguely resembling the end of the world
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the hunch is based on reading tweets on this topic from randoms
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Replying to @VesselOfSpirit @GrumplessGrinch
Ok? Not sure what methodology you're using to generalize from anecdotes to an entire base here, but this is even more tenuous than the pallete swapped claim that all righties think cold winter days disprove global warming.
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Replying to @hikikomorphism @GrumplessGrinch
come on, where did i say "all"
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obviously there are people who think cold winter days disprove global warming, and you can see them turning up in the replies to politicians, and if a politician claims cold winter days disprove global warming it's totally legitimate to say they're lying/stupid
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and this is the case even if, technically, cold winter days do provide a little bit of bayesian evidence against global warming
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