Prepare for a ‘Gray Swan’ Climate
Climate catastrophe is coming. We know this. What we don’t know is how bad it will be. In the best case scenario, an unprecedented global Green New Deal rapidly transitions the world economy off of carbon, holding global temperature rise under 3°C.61 This causes large-scale polar ice melt, 12 inches of sea level rise by 2050,62 and major habitat di
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Why 2020 to 2050 Will Be ‘the Most Transformative Decades in Human History’
Eric Holthausonezero.medium.com
In this world of climate breakdown, reporters are repeatedly referring to a ‘new normal’, perhaps hoping that we’ve reached a new equilibrium, similar to when the term was coined after the post-2008 financial crash. But climate change is not a boom and bust cycle. There will be no equilibrium, never again in our lifetimes. It’s increasingly difficu
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