Sublime

that people—or, if you like, automata, algorithms—can and do act in situations that are not well defined.

Her public reputation, like Demeter’s daughter, crawls back up from the underworld.

bluff

before the end of the century Svante Arrhenius (1859–1927), a Swedish chemist and an early Nobelian, published the first calculations of increased global surface temperature arising from the eventual doubling of preindustrial atmospheric CO2.[43] His paper also noted that global warming will be felt least in the tropics and most felt in the polar

As the foremost spokesperson for the view that abrupt climate change will result in near-term human extinction (NTHE), he was the Dark Prince of Climate.

We’re already about 1°C above the baseline of where we were in 1750. When we get another few degrees above that, it’s difficult for me to imagine we’ll have habitat for our species in the future.5

Look for the ones that are setting themselves up to get to zero. Their emissions might not be changing much now,