A developer wanted to build a facility to capture carbon. Locals saw an environmental menace.

A developer wanted to build a facility to capture carbon. Locals saw an environmental menace.

  • intensely_human@lemm.ee
    26·
    3 months ago

    This sentence is a clear indication these climate models are not accurate enough to be making serious decisions on:

    A 2018 report from a panel of United Nations scientists estimated the world will need to remove between 100 billion and 1 trillion metric tons of carbon from the atmosphere this century to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit)

    This is a 10x range in their model outputs.

    • futatorius@lemm.ee
      1·
      3 months ago

      Look at the actual data. Not all models are equally valid, and in ensemble forecasts from a single model, you need to do a summation of the ensemble members to come up with a firm pseudo-deterministic estimate.