Thanks for flagging this. I think estimating temperature rise after burning all available fossil fuels is mostly educated guesswork. Both estimating the total amount of fossil fuels is hard and estimate the climate response from them is hard.
However, I hadn’t seen this Winkelmann, et al. paper, which makes a valuable contribution. It suggests that the climate response is substantially sub-linear at higher levels of warming.
The notes that are currently posted above about how warm it would get if we burned all the fossil fuels were back-of-the-envelope calculations that I did in this slides’ notes, and I wouldn’t trust them much. They assume a linear model which isn’t reliable at these temperatures. I didn’t end up including them in the talk as I didn’t think they were robust enough. I’ll ask Louis about removing them.
Thanks for the quick response, and really appreciate your (and Louis’s) hard work on getting this type of sophisticated/nuanced information out in a way that other EAs can easily understand!
Thanks for flagging this. I think estimating temperature rise after burning all available fossil fuels is mostly educated guesswork. Both estimating the total amount of fossil fuels is hard and estimate the climate response from them is hard.
However, I hadn’t seen this Winkelmann, et al. paper, which makes a valuable contribution. It suggests that the climate response is substantially sub-linear at higher levels of warming.
The notes that are currently posted above about how warm it would get if we burned all the fossil fuels were back-of-the-envelope calculations that I did in this slides’ notes, and I wouldn’t trust them much. They assume a linear model which isn’t reliable at these temperatures. I didn’t end up including them in the talk as I didn’t think they were robust enough. I’ll ask Louis about removing them.
Thanks for flagging this Linch!
Thanks for the quick response, and really appreciate your (and Louis’s) hard work on getting this type of sophisticated/nuanced information out in a way that other EAs can easily understand!
No worries—edit made.