I had a whole chapter in my PhD dissertation arguing that we were much closer to this than was commonly believed. That was a little more than a decade ago. Sucks to be right.
Did your professor belittle you for that opinion?
That aside, yes it does suck immensely especially if you were originally met with pushback at the time.
Definitely not belittlement, but my committee didn’t necessarily agree. Climate scientists are often rather conservative–not so much in the political sense as in the “we think that the middle-of-the-road ensemble model prediction is probably basically right” sense. When you say something like “I think that even the more pessimistic model forecasts are underselling how bad the situation is” they tend to be pretty skeptical. I got pushback, but not really disdain or belittlement. A lot of the new work coming out seems to be vindicating the position I was taking though which (again) sucks because it is very bad.
Being a leftist is being correct too early.
Well if nothing else, shits about to get mad real so again it comes down to socialism or fallout without power armor
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If we stay on the current trajectory, I think more-or-less complete collapse by 2060 at the outside.
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In this house we hate the Atlantic
Well that Atlantic’s a problem too, I guess.
If I live midway up the east coast and the gulf stream collapses, am I going to die freezing or die sweating
Yes
