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GliderGuider

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20. It's a tightrope, all right.

Reply to NoOneMan (Reply #17)

Fri Nov 23, 2012, 03:02 PM

Nov 2012

It's much easier to recognize confirmation bias in others.

Unfortunately, I'm still pretty sure that this changes nothing about the outlook for the next 30 years, which is when all the damage will happen. If we have around 2800 Gt of still available; and anything over 600 is deadly; and there is no slowdown in consumption on the horizon; we're in desperate trouble in 15 to 20 years anyway.

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It's a tightrope, all right. GliderGuider Nov 2012 #20

Pfft, I'm the alarmist here, you're the doomer. joshcryer Nov 2012 #23

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