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‘Climate change is here’: Experts warn environmental crisis is decades ahead of forecasts
(www.independent.co.uk)
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This is partly because the models have NEVER matched the data.
yt's "Just Have A Think" seems a good channel, for accurate information on global warming.. ( FAR better than MSM )
but there's a simple, blunt principle which has always been true, in ClimatePunctuations:
The SPEED of change goes from 0 up to maximum-speed-of-change, then back down to 0, at the new ClimateEquilibrium.
So, you get a BELL-curve, for the speed of change.
That's predictable.
Where are we on that curve??
In the still-accelerating part.
ALL the forecasts seem to ignore that, & intentionally-leave-out huge pieces..
Interior Antarctica is heating at 2x the speed predicted by the models, I read in 2025 or 2024.
They didn't include the freshwater from Greenland's melting until 2023 or something??
The "Cold Blob" visible from space had no explanation until then??
( what was icemelt supposed to do, except be
I've read that it isn't that the models are wrong, rather, it is that the data isn't agreeing with them.
Pseudoscientific bunk ( one of that yt-channel's videos mentioned a guy with ICC authority maintained the models are trustworthy in spite of the evidence contradicting them.. )
No, this is systemic intentional-ignorance, in ALL dimensions: government, "science"-institution, politics, economy, EVERYthing.
No matter: we're on-track for something like +9C, & that means that the US is going to have to rampage Canada, in order to have any place to live, right?
& same with India's population needing a new home, same with Saudi Arabia's, same with northern Africa's..
Basically, a region above, & a region below, the entire Equator may end up being uninhabitable, or the entire tropics, even.
As a former NASA Chief Scientist noted: Venus's climate IS a possible outcome.
The climate-problems we've got now, are NOTHING, compared with what they're going to be in another decade.
& again, the following decade..
.. until we reach the maximum-speed-of-change, & begin slowing-down the speed-of-change.
Since we won't allow slowing-down to begin, ..
.. then human viability may be off the table.
Whole-species DarwinAward, due to our political-motivation, instead of objectivity+practicality.
Earned, though: Universe IS honest, that way..
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