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The data we currently have predicts between

1.4-5.8 and is based on estimates of global population between 7-15 billion people.

Thats the official data and it's not as certain as many would like to make it.

http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/tar/wg2/index.php?idp=29




Your range of 1.4C would involve drastic changes - the report mentions this as "including all SRES".


Not "we're doomed" changes.


No, I meant that the estimate of 1.4C is the lower end of temperatures given drastic changes to emissions are made - and since your link is from ten years ago, I can already tell you those drastic changes were not made.


Neither did the temperature changes they thought would happen, happen in fact the never reports tone down the temperature not up.


They never claimed to be able to predict the temperature for a particular decade.


No but you and others speak of it as if they did. That's the point and was what I was saying. So claiming there is a certain temperature thats relevant instead of the truth which is there is a range of potential temperatures some of them not as problematic is the right way to think about the problem.




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