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vwb2022 t1_j8y0zo0 wrote

20 years ago when I was doing my PhD I became friends with a bunch of climatologists as our offices were next to each other. Their view was that the model is always lagging behind, because we first need to observe the effect to include it into the model.

So whatever the model is telling us, the things will get worse faster than that. If the model is saying that 2 degC increase is safe, that's probably not true and we should aim for 1.5. We already burned through 1 degC increase, so things are not looking good.

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kittenTakeover t1_j8y9792 wrote

What happens after 2 degC?

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hmoeslund t1_j8ye7a3 wrote

You have to learn yoga - so you can bend over and kiss your ass goodbye

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killcat t1_j903tq4 wrote

It's about the positive feedback loops, as it gets warmer more ice and permafrost melts, lowering the albedo, releasing trapped Carbon as CO2 or CH4 etc

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