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I don't think he was taking it out of context.re: AOC's "12 years" statement, which of course ramrouser is taking out of context......
Ocasio-Cortez was referencing a major global report issued in October of 2018 by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the United Nation’s scientific authority on climate change.
The year 2030 came up prominently in that report, marking the first year that the planet is likely to warm by 1.5 degrees Celsius (the report provided a range of between 2030 and 2052). This temperature was set as an idealistic goal during the 2015 Paris Climate Accord. It is widely seen among climate scientists as a marker, beyond which long-term, irreversible change begins to occur, but does not signify the end of the world.
“Every extra bit of warming matters, especially since warming of 1.5°C or higher increases the risk associated with long-lasting or irreversible changes, such as the loss of some ecosystems,” according to Hans-Otto Pörtner, a Co-Chair of the IPCC.
In order to keep warming within the 1.5 degree range and limit the effects—which get considerably worse as warming approaches and passes 2 degrees—the report states that human emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) must decline by 45% by 2030 and be essentially zero by 2050. A popular narrative that resulted from the report was that we only have 12 years to avoid the dire consequences of climate change.
The report certainly does not say that the world will end in 12 years, but it does warn that if there has not been a major shift in human’s reliance on fossil fuels for energy, land, and industrial systems by that time, we may begin living in a world that is more hostile to our current way of life – with higher sea levels, hotter heat waves and more extreme disasters. A lot of people will die.
I think he did not know what AOC said and was relying on the right wing media disinformation talking points.
Or perhaps he did know what AOC said but did not understand what she said
Or perhaps he did know what AOC said and deliberately distorted it
My guess is he just repeated the right wing wing media disinformation distortion
If he had read what AOC actually said, he would have understood what AOC said
I do not think ram would knowingly spread disinformation