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"Current policies alone likely keep warming below 3°C (5.4°F), nowhere near the “worst-case” scenarios."
https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/202310/backpage.cfm
Hey I found this cool post from that guy you're quoting.
So only most of us die instead of all of us?
You might want to read the article. Doomism isn't climate science.
Nobel prize-winning climate scientist
As the article correctly points out, 3 C warming is still really fucking bad. Just because it can technically be worse and we won't all die does not mean it'll be nice to live through. Bringing about the extinction of 29% of all species is madness. To quote the article:
yeah and this is through the narrow lens of just temperature. If there was no climate change we would still be pretty effed up due to habitat loss and pollution and such. Climate change is just sorta a knock on effect.
3 degrees Celsius is already social collapse type of threateningly bad. Sure, we might not go extinct (aka the "worst case", although tipping points could bring us the rest of the way there), but that doesn't mean we'll enjoy any sort of comfortable and stable life. We'd see major food and water shortages, we'd see terrible weather events such as prolonged droughts and massive flooding, we'd see vast areas of the equator becoming unlivable hellscapes, we'd see hundreds of thousands climate refugees, we'd see hundreds of thousands climate fatalities, we'd see exploding prices in every single sector, we'd see civil unrest dismantling the very fabric of our societies.
So maybe inform yourself what those 3 degrees would actually mean for the world.
Highly ironic considering of your cherry picking and hiding of the truth. The author very much points out that the hope there is if we finally take action, consequently limiting us to not even reach those 3 degrees Celsius, which so far is still not happening.
But frankly, what you're doing is even worse, because you simply call everyone a "doomer" who literally just wants the world to take the proper action needed to tackle this crisis, to even properly ACKNOWLEDGE this crisis. None of this is happening. Just because I think we're fucked, does not mean I am not doing my part. My footprint is ridiculously small even compared to your average one person household, and there's a lot of people in the middle and upper class who live so much worse due to their lavish lifestyles.
What's with all the climate science deniers here downvoting a statement from an actual climate scientist ... !?
It's because we have brains and can read further than the headline 🤷🏻♀️