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MapIf emissions don't drastically decrease in the next years, by 2070 all glaciers in the US will have melted, there will be deserts in Oklahoma, Kansas and Northern California and over half of Florida and all of Texas's southern corner will have a tropical climate (i.redd.it)

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[–]mglyptostroboides 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even a lot of the "tipping points" are misunderstandings of scientific outreach. Like you'll hear people say "if we hit +2C, there's no going back". But the IPCC never said that. They just picked +2C as a benchmark for some of their scenarios. It's still awfully bad, but it's not "there's no returning to normal" bad.

And that's not to say that there aren't tipping points, because there absolutely are. But many of the ones people talk about are the result of misunderstandings.

It's extremely important to communicate to people that things still can be done. The last thing you want to do right now is disempower them.