• Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    4 days ago

    They were

    Scientists always were afraid to be too alarmist and be ignored, so they always went conservative with their estimates.

    Now we are here

    • morto@piefed.social
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      3 days ago

      Even when trying to be the most realistic, the climate is too difficult to accurately model, due to many variables and interactions between them, like feedback loops, which tend to make our models err on the generous side