• The Atlantic: 'A Terrifying Sea-Level Prediction Now Looks Far Less Likely'
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Terrifying Sea One of the scariest scenarios for near-term, disastrous sea-level rise may be off the table for now, according to a new study previewed at a recent scientific conference It is a reassuring constraint placed on one of the most alarming scientific hypotheses advanced this decade. The press had described DeConto and Pollard’s original work as an “ice apocalypse” spawned by a “doomsday glacier.” Now their worst-case skyrocketing sea-level scenario seems extremely unlikely, at least within our own lifetimes. Yet their work—and the work of other sea-level-rise scientists—still warns of potential catastrophe for our children and grandchildren. If every country meets its current commitment under the Paris Agreement, the Earth will warm about 2.7 degrees Celsius by the end of the century compared with its pre-industrial average. In their new research, DeConto and his colleagues say that there’s a tipping point, somewhere between 2 and 3 degrees Celsius of temperature rise, after which the West Antarctic Ice Sheet will slip into rapid and shattering collapse. These new results have not yet been peer-reviewed. DeConto, a professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, presented them to other scientists last month at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union, the largest annual conference of Earth scientists in the world. He and his colleagues declined to comment for this story in keeping with an academic custom not to discuss new work with the press before its publication. The Atlantic Left-Center Bias These media sources have a slight to moderate liberal bias.  They often publish factual information that utilizes loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by using appeal to emotion or stereotypes) to favor liberal causes.  These sources are generally trustworthy for information, but may require further investigation. Overall, we rate The Atlantic Left-Center Biased due to editorial position and High for factual reporting based on excellent sourcing of information.
Something to emphasize >These new results have not yet been peer-reviewed.
Exactly why I included it in the snippet. While this is potentially good news, even if found to be accurate all it really means is that we've just got a little bit more time than we thought.
Deniers like my dad will use the lack of foretold calamity as further evidence that there is no crisis. It's all a conspiracy to make money off carbon taxation.
Good news for the assholes making money off of pretty much fucking over every ecosystem on the planet. They'll be allowed to do that without consequence for a bit longer now!
Watch this be used to justify ignoring climate change :/
Back to sellin' diesels and v8's by the dozen!
Right, as opposed to the totally fake military industrial complex which does the same thing but more effectively and quite openly.
To be fair, carbon taxation is just a way to make a profit off polluters. A real solution is direct government regulation of emissions and serious fines and consequences for violators.
Heh, told you guys it were cold outside.
happens here in Portugal One could see it as a way to tackle emissions, but in the end, all it really does is make people not buy diesels with bigger displacements and avoid petrol at all costs unless for very small runs. In practicality, the regulators or who ever puts up the prices, jack them up months in a row, until people start questioning why the fuck are fuel prices going up so much at the pump, while they might EVEN be dropping in barrel, and then decide people are catching on to them and lower prices again. They found a new way now. They lower fuel prices, but then tax higher by emissions in some way that you end up paying the same.
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