this is absolutely fascinating from a global warming perspective, in that it puts the club of rome and the ipcc's earliest estimate for 2C right there on the page, but then just kindof... accepts that as background context for the issue it wants to focus on.
if you actually believed the club of rome was roughly/partly right, and that the ipcc's worst-plausible scenarios are ahead, then the subtle social effect of bigdata is like... a wildly abstract thing compared to the famines and wars and mass refugee crisis those assumptions entail.
as we iterate through our reckoning with the scope of the problem these little crossover nuggets are popping up more and more. people who understand the metrics of the problem, and are even on the pragmatically-pessimistic side, but who then sortof just sliiiiiide over it in their brain.
if you actually believed the club of rome was roughly/partly right, and that the ipcc's worst-plausible scenarios are ahead, then the subtle social effect of bigdata is like... a wildly abstract thing compared to the famines and wars and mass refugee crisis those assumptions entail.
as we iterate through our reckoning with the scope of the problem these little crossover nuggets are popping up more and more. people who understand the metrics of the problem, and are even on the pragmatically-pessimistic side, but who then sortof just sliiiiiide over it in their brain.