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#54 – Edouard Mathieu on Our World in Data

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Climate Change Forecasts - Is the UN Estimation Right?

Metaculous has a forecast of world population by the end of the century and it's significantly different from the UN one. If we had on top of this a good and lengthy explanation of why they think the UN estimate is wrong I think that could be interesting. No one really feels like legitimate to provide alternative scenarios or alternative forecasts because people tend to defer to the IPCC, he says.

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