It says that because excess CO2 takes thousands of years to leave the atmosphere, decisions we make now will still be affecting our distant descendants then. That is a nonsequitur and an extremely implausible prophecy.
Another plug for @DanielSchrag's excellent class about climate change: https://www.edx.org/course/climate-energy-challenge-harvardx-spu29x … I've added 400+ Anki questions through the first six "weeks" of lectures (~ 4 hours).https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/1060342470922317824 …
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It does? I didn't notice. Actually, up through the first 20 or so videos he's barely mentioned humans at all, except incidentally.
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Love Anki Q’s as a metric for how now info is coming in
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Thanks for sharing! Have you done other online courses with a similarly high information density?
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