#ClimateDiary “Above is a fictional weather forecast for August 18, 2050, broadcast by French television in 2014, intended to warn against the disastrous consequences of global warming.

Below is the weather forecast for June 22, 2026.”

(By @jakubwiech on unmentionable)

This brings out super starkly how #ClimateChange has accelerated so much more quickly than we thought even just 12 years ago.

@pvonhellermannn

Faster than we ever thought…

@xs4me2 @pvonhellermannn what’s been obvious for a while is that scientists are conservative and understate the risks. It looks like it will get worse faster than predicted.
@Lats @xs4me2 @pvonhellermannn COP climate scientists' methodology excluded any recent, alarming, research into sea levels, acidification, ice-melt, AMOC etc. from their models. And lobbyists watered things down further. This lowered assessments of risk, and error bounds. Then policy makers adopted a max CO2 concentration that only had at best a 50% chance of meeting their 1.5C limit even according to these conservative models, ... and then did nothing, except adopt policies that make it worse.