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Chaos, Covid, & Climate Change with Professor Tim Palmer (#267)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

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The COVID Thing Is Kind of Similar to the Michael Fish Storm

The extent to which the weather does change is a function of how much we continue to emit carbon dioxide. If we suddenly, for some reason, tomorrow stopped emitting carbon dioxide, then we'd be looking at a very different climate by mid century than if we just carry on as per normal. So when you're making predictions of climate change, they're predicated on a particular assumption about whether we'll continue to emit as normal or not. And again, you essentially have probabilistic estimates of future climate change. Now coming to COVID, I think what I was struck by was the analogy in some way. It's exactly the same as the Michael Fish storm. They hit this point of

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