Burning All Fossil Fuels Would Scorch Earth, Says Study (phys.org)

mspohr quotes a report from Phys.Org: A new study published in the Journal Nature Climate Change shows our precarious climate condition: "Using up all known fossil fuel reserves would render Earth even more unlivable than scientists had previously projected, researchers said on Monday. Average temperatures would climb by up to 9.5 degrees Celsius (17 degrees Fahrenheit) -- five times the cap on global warming set at climate talks in Paris in December, they reported. In the Arctic region -- already heating at more than double the global average -- the thermometer would rise an unimaginable 15 C to 20 C." This would make most of Earth uninhabitable to humans (although the dinosaurs seemed to do fine with it 65 million years ago). The report also stated that if fossil fuel trends go unchanged, ten times the 540 billion tons of carbon emitted since the start of industrialization would be reached near the end of the 22nd century. For comparison, "older models had projected that depleting fossil fuel reserves entirely would heat the planet by 4.3 C to 8.4 C. The new study revises this to between 6.4 C and 9.5 C," writes Phys.Org.

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Re:It's worse than we thought!

[Blaskowicz]

Uh?
Rightists/Exponentialists don't want to control the wealth, they control it.
Their idea of healthcare is endless bureaucracy, price gouging and denial of care, and bankruptcy of insured people by medical bills.
They determined that you deserve to eat pink slime and steroid beef.
Rightists/Exponentialists want you to pledge allegiance to "free trade", Wall Street, the European Union and so on. If your country lacks "compliance" the US of A and its numerous allies will target it for "regime change" (also now called a "political transition") through various means including firing over a hundred cruise missiles, snipers that fire both at the crowds and the police or sending weapons and money to Al Qaeda so that they fight for "freedom" and "democracy".

This reduces population but not by very much, about a million per decade these days. Rightists/Exponentialists are content with that since they can sell weapons, provide "security guards" and "reconstruction" services.
And I forgot, to find crackpots listen at presidents, prime ministers, secretaries of State, foreign ministers, the mainstream media.