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How Do You Like Those Odds?

User Image sastyk | May 7, 2010
Again, Stuart Staniford runs the numbers and clarifies the analysis, and comes up with some really hideously bad possibilities. In his "Odds of Cooking the Grandchildren" Staniford shows us the implications of a PNAS paper that I'd missed: There is a horrible paper in this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (hat-tip Desdemona Despair), which looks at how the limits of human physiology interact with upper-range global warming scenarios. The bottom line conclusion is that there is a small - of order 5% - risk of global warming creating a situation in which a large fraction…