Counterpoint: number must go up.
(Highly ironically, seems to include this one as well?)
Extinction is highly unlikely. End of civilization perhaps, but humans are extremely hardy and versatile. You would be hard pressed to kill all humans in all biomes.
If a feedbackloop occurs where earth becomes a Venus like world... Well all die for sure
That would probably not happen at a human scale. Civilization would collapse and nature would heal.
Current trajectory estimates are more like +2.5C to +3C by 2100 based on existing policy. We've actually managed to move the trajectory downward even though we obviously have a lot to go. Every little bit counts. It is far less binary than this overly simplistic tweet is suggesting
Excessive claims like this end up demotivating people and make them want to give up when we can reduce the damage each time we move our trajectory down by 0.1C
I like this comment. Because you're right, I felt doom in the pit of my stomach before seeing it. Thanks for adding nuance.
Yep. We're probably all going to die
This is why I absolutely will not have children. Not like this.
If we're all going to die anyway and it gets worse and worse worth every year, we can just as well burn the place down and go down in one glorious moment. Here's to not having any hope left.
They don’t care. They just want as much money as they can collect during their brief lives.
I really do care, but I don’t have anything more I can do. I can take individual measures, and I can vote, but by and large fellow citizens clearly expressed that they don’t value this.
This is pretty outdated, since I think we're at 1.5 or even 2.0C now
We”re around 1.5 to 1.6 right now
world looks pretty dangerous, it checks out
We're actually at 2.5 now lol
Uh.. lol?
Does anyone have any sources for the different thresholds?
I posted this as a meme, but I do hope someone can give you a source
Since this isn't clearly a joke, I think you're effectively just spreading despairing misinformation instead, since you don't know if this is true information or not.
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