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      Sharing this graph casually is rather unhelpful despite your note, since most casual observers aren’t going to observe the scale change in the X axis, and instead will see only that today is similar to the 12,000 years ago segment.

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      Fun tidbit: I read somewhere that a few years ago people needed to sit down and come up with a new worst case scenario for global warming because we hit the previously predicted worst case (and I think exceeded it too.)

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      Best case is out for sure. Worst case is also looking unlikely thankfully. Probably we’re in for a rough ride but not end of civilization level event. Though that’s still possible which is concerning. Normally you’d think good governance would keep the probability of world-ending catastrophes extremely low. So while those things may be unlikely, they’re still way too possible for us to get comfortable.

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    Reminder that this was made in 2016 and we are already around +1°C global average. We are welll past best case scenario already

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      When the ocean start boiling, then we’ll deal with it. We will do so by having a conference in Geneva that state leaders fly private jets to, that’ll help.

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    Some days ago a close one whom I usually agree with politically said “climate has always had variations” and “they can’t guess the weather correctly for next week, so how can they predict it for in 50 years”. I’ll send them this cartoon tonight I think.

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    “Last North American Pokemon goes instinct” - had a good chuckle at that.

    Seriously though, humanity should get it’s head screwed on straight. This is going way too fast for evolution to cope with.

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    Let’s make our language heavily inflected, so future students have to memorize a zillion of verb endings!

    Killed me 😂 The message is really alarming but that little humorous detail made my day.