Don't overstate 1.5 degrees C threat, new IPCC head says – DW – 07/30/2023
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Jim Skea, the new head of the UN's IPCC climate panel, said it was not helpful to imply that temperature increases of 1.5 degrees Celsius posed an existential threat to humanity.

In short, we aren’t on track to an apocalyptic extinction, and the new head is concerned that rhetoric that we are is making people apathetic and paralyzes them from making beneficial actions.

He makes it clear too that this doesn’t mean things are perfectly fine. The world is becoming and will be more dangerous with respect to climate. We’re going to still have serious problems to deal with. The problems just aren’t insurmountable and extinction level.

  • @HWK_290English
    0•1 year ago

    lol no

    Statistics are a summarization of data

    All fields use it.

    A statistic is that the climate will increase more than 1.5 degrees by the end of the century

    How we operationalize that information requires other statistical summaries BUT that does not negate the fact that we have passed a tipping point and people are dying because of it…

    That doesn’t absolve us of action now… Or risk of overstating the threat

    Another statistic is that most people don’t understand statistics

    Signed, an actual fucking statistician

    • @WookiEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      Again ignoring the point and proving mine to what, prove an elementary understanding of…statistics? So you don’t understand social science at all. Got it.

      • @HWK_290English
        0•1 year ago

        Sorry to have disappointed you. I’ll go ahead and tender my resignation later today. I guess I can’t help the planet after all… 😢