Back in 2006, our expectations were set when An Inconveient Truth contemplated what would happen if sea levels rose by six meters (in our lifetime). 3.6mm a year seems a bit meh in that context.
Something I see a lot is people looking at worst case predictions as if they were presented as the most likely predictions. A lot of the IPCC reports say things like “if we continue to increase emissions, this will happen” (a worst case scenario) and also “if we make moderate improvements, this will happen” (a slightly better scenario). Then people who don’t want to talk about climate change mitigation will highlight the worst case scenario and say “see they were wrong and hysterical!” even when the moderate prediction, which they will ignore, ended up being essentially totally accurate.
TaylorAlexander|2 years ago
Trumpi|2 years ago