Don't overstate 1.5 degrees C threat, new IPCC head says – DW – 07/30/2023
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Jim Skea, the new head of the UN's IPCC climate panel, said it was not helpful to imply that temperature increases of 1.5 degrees Celsius posed an existential threat to humanity.

In short, we aren’t on track to an apocalyptic extinction, and the new head is concerned that rhetoric that we are is making people apathetic and paralyzes them from making beneficial actions.

He makes it clear too that this doesn’t mean things are perfectly fine. The world is becoming and will be more dangerous with respect to climate. We’re going to still have serious problems to deal with. The problems just aren’t insurmountable and extinction level.

  • HWK_290@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    1 year ago

    LOL WUT

    So first off, climate science is data driven. Social politics should play no part in how to interpret the result that shit is getting hotter and people are dying… That’s pure statistics baby

    But in terms of communication, sure, understanding psychology helps. But look where a poor understanding of social psychology got us…

    And social science is not the same as psychology. Social science means integrating diverse perspectives into environmental decision making. Which many in this thread are failing to do

    • Wooki@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      You’re overly ignorant of social science and you’ve shown to have zero understanding of what it is. Statistics are a huge component.

      Climate change is human created and you think we can fix it without the human science. Good luck with that.

      • HWK_290@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        lol no

        Statistics are a summarization of data

        All fields use it.

        A statistic is that the climate will increase more than 1.5 degrees by the end of the century

        How we operationalize that information requires other statistical summaries BUT that does not negate the fact that we have passed a tipping point and people are dying because of it…

        That doesn’t absolve us of action now… Or risk of overstating the threat

        Another statistic is that most people don’t understand statistics

        Signed, an actual fucking statistician

        • Wooki@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Again ignoring the point and proving mine to what, prove an elementary understanding of…statistics? So you don’t understand social science at all. Got it.

          • HWK_290@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            1 year ago

            Sorry to have disappointed you. I’ll go ahead and tender my resignation later today. I guess I can’t help the planet after all… 😢