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I wasn't worried about climate change. Now I am.

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1 HN user recommended this explainer1 month2024 score 1.5
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HN commenters link it as the direct source on climate sensitivity and on the claim that past models ran too cold.

Sabine Hossenfelder explains climate sensitivity and why recent observations suggest climate models may have underestimated warming. She says this changed her view on how worried to be.

“See this great video from Sabine Hossenfelder here” (HN, 2024)

1 strong recommendations · 5 citations · Explainers · partly dated

6 Hacker News comments

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@awesomeMilou May 2024 Strongly recommends
on HN thread OpenAI departures: Why can’t former employees talk?
See this great video from Sabine Hossenfelder here: [this video] We have surpassed the 1.5°C goal and are on track towards 3.5°C to 5°C. This accelerates the climate change timeline so that we'll see effects postulated for the end of the century in about ~20 years.
Great video on warming trajectory

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@Aachen Jan 2024 Cites it
on HN thread I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do [video]
That blog post is a thin wrapper around another video btw. Direct link to the content: [this video] (For those who prefer to read: it has subtitles/transcript available for various languages — proper ones, not auto-generated!)
Direct link to content with proper transcripts
@pillefitz Mar 2024 Cites it
on HN thread Ice-free summers in Arctic possible within next decade, scientists say
We have good reasons to be concerned when looking at the sudden rise in ocean temperatures seen since early 2023 that closely track the worst-case scenarios. Given the stakes, I prefer to be overly cautious (aka. alarmist). On the topic of possible inaccurate climate models used in IPCC reports [this video]
Cited on possibly inaccurate climate models
@graphe Mar 2024 Cites it
on HN thread Why Is the Sea So Hot?
I watched Sabina Hossenfelder talk about historical predictive models being wrong and too cold on their predictions due to the way they looked at the clouds and the scattering of the light (quantifying the amount of water vapor in the clouds). [this video] Climate scientists are disagreeing over the hot climate models. This is not a debate on the human effects, simply the way to interpret the data.
Discusses climate models being too cold due to clouds
@csydas Jul 2024 Cites it
on HN thread Another Climate Truth Bomb
Maybe the link should be changed directly to the video it discusses? The article is purely a link to this YouTube video: [this video] The article itself as I read it doesn't really contribute or expand the concepts in the video and instead is a call to action (not defined) as it assumes you've watched the video, basically I'm just not confident the article contributes anything to the subject its presenting.
The article merely wraps this video

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