I find it interesting that there’s apparently more proportional risk in the second half of this century than in this half and the following centuries. I’m guessing that’s just a byproduct of numeric heuristics, but I’d be interested in if there’s anything more on that. Discussions of climate change seem to center on the 50-100 year time horizon, which seems like a somewhat arbitrary choice by scientists, but I could see it influencing public perceptions.
I find it interesting that there’s apparently more proportional risk in the second half of this century than in this half and the following centuries. I’m guessing that’s just a byproduct of numeric heuristics, but I’d be interested in if there’s anything more on that. Discussions of climate change seem to center on the 50-100 year time horizon, which seems like a somewhat arbitrary choice by scientists, but I could see it influencing public perceptions.