Are we going to hold a drawing to see who lives? Play eenie meenie miney moe? Or flip a coin (oh, wait, that would be racist)
Study: Climate Change Probably Won’t Kill All of Us
Due to a combination of prudence and morbid curiosity, a great deal of scholarly research (and journalism) about climate change has focused on the worst of all possible worlds. For scientists running climate-economic models, that nightmare scenario has a concrete definition: In 2011, such researchers established four baseline scenarios for the future of greenhouse gas emissions (ranging from the benign to the catastrophic)Â for the sake of facilitating comparable studies.
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And make no mistake: Even if near-term planetary extinction looks unlikely, humanity still has a moral and practical obligation to cut emissions as quickly as possible. The worst-case scenario may be less likely than we thought. But very, very bad scenarios remain almost certain. Climate change is already devastating and destabilizing whole regions of the Earth and increasing the intensity and frequency of extreme weather.
The fable never did say who is going to survive the Climate Games.
