Erica Thompson: "Models, The Hawkmoth Effect, and the Future"
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
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The Overton Window of Climate Change
There's a new paper out by James Hansen, who has a lot of status within the climate community. He asserts that the long term sensitivity of a doubling of CO2 is much higher than previously thought. And he said by the year, I can't remember the exact details, but basically we're headed for 10 degrees Celsius in the long-term Earth system equilibrium. So do we have the moral right to say, oh, James Hansen, brilliant climate scientist, says it's already too late? What do you think about that?
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