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Re:Treating beef like coal would make a big dent in greenhou... by mrjangles on Friday October 01, 2021 @05:04AM (#28716173)
I'm sorry but this is such an poor attempt to nit pick the obviously false claims made by the UN back then. It's been 20 years since they said we would be past the point of no return and almost no one today believes we are past the point of no return.

Furthermore, those unspecific weasel words they were using back then to try and wriggle out of any predicitons they made back then, they are still using today when they say we will be past the point of no return in 10 years from now. Their wording was clearly meant to trick people into believing there would be mass destruction and climate refugees in 10 years, and people believed it back then, just like people today believe we will be seeing the same in 10 years from now.

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Re:Treating beef like coal would make a big dent in greenhou... by adrianN on Friday October 01, 2021 @05:58AM (#28716483)
The goal posts have moved significantly since the early nineties. Back then we had a realistic chance of limiting warming to well below one degree. We're now far past the point of no return for that. Today we talk about approaching the point of no return for 2° warming. Chances are good that we'll still talk about approaching the point of no return in another decade, only this time we'll talk about 3°.
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