Agreed. I’m getting tired of these pencil-pusher reports implying that “the economy” is going to keep chugging along at a reduced rate, as if we can just shuffle around our stock portfolios and weather the storm.
The “Planetary Solvency” report by IFoA is one of the first mainstream papers that’s taking a sober look at the climate crisis. If we hit 2°C by 2050, they’re seeing a significant likelihood of:
2 billion deaths
High number of climate tipping points triggered, partial tipping cascade.
Breakdown of some critical ecosystem services and Earth systems.
Major extinction events in multiple geographies.
Ocean circulation severely impacted.
Severe socio-political fragmentation in many regions, low lying regions lost.
Heat and water stress drive involuntary mass migration of billions.
Catastrophic mortality events from disease, malnutrition, thirst and conflict.
I don’t even want to think about 3°C and 4°C scenarios.
Oh I can definitely get behind that, I have my gripes with how the current climate consensus is insidiously stacked to give policymakers leeway and mislead the public with this bullshit.
I’m reading through it now and this part on NGFS reports really captures the sentiment:
This is analogous to carrying out a risk assessment of
the impact of the Titanic hitting an iceberg but excluding
from our model the possibility that the ship could sink,
the shortage of lifeboats, and death from drowning or
hypothermia.
As much as I hate talking about ‘duh economee’ when it comes to climate change (a thing that threatens the existence of us and many other beings) this report nails it.
Also the critical observations are good talking points when dealing with deniers/idiots
My favorite climate consensus roll-eyes is how all the graphs always stop at 2100. As if the heating will just stop at that point and we won’t be looking at 6 degrees of warming by 2150. And 8 by 2200.
CO2 stays in the atmosphere for at least 500 years. There’s no getting off this train.
Agreed. I’m getting tired of these pencil-pusher reports implying that “the economy” is going to keep chugging along at a reduced rate, as if we can just shuffle around our stock portfolios and weather the storm.
The “Planetary Solvency” report by IFoA is one of the first mainstream papers that’s taking a sober look at the climate crisis. If we hit 2°C by 2050, they’re seeing a significant likelihood of:
I don’t even want to think about 3°C and 4°C scenarios.
Oh I can definitely get behind that, I have my gripes with how the current climate consensus is insidiously stacked to give policymakers leeway and mislead the public with this bullshit.
I’m reading through it now and this part on NGFS reports really captures the sentiment:
As much as I hate talking about ‘duh economee’ when it comes to climate change (a thing that threatens the existence of us and many other beings) this report nails it.
Also the critical observations are good talking points when dealing with deniers/idiots
My favorite climate consensus roll-eyes is how all the graphs always stop at 2100. As if the heating will just stop at that point and we won’t be looking at 6 degrees of warming by 2150. And 8 by 2200.
CO2 stays in the atmosphere for at least 500 years. There’s no getting off this train.