This is the scariest graph I've ever seen
Channel: vlogbrothers
Date: 2018-10-19

Graphs shouldn't be scary! They're just data! And even though I have a masters degree in environmental studies, this graph, once it was explained to me, changed how I felt about the impacts we were having on the planet completely. Of course, being scared by this graph depends on you caring about human life beyond your own lifespan which, like, seems like a fairly easy thing to me, but maybe not to a lot of other people. 

Or maybe we're all just assuming that in the 500+ years it would take for the warming to result in a full melt, we'll be able to fix these problems some other way. Fingers crossed...I guess.

Check out my Hankschannel video on Global Warming here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqDyHYJFhSM

Citations!

Global sea-level rise: weighing country responsibility and risk
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-016-1703-4

Committed sea-level rise under the Paris Agreement and the legacy of delayed mitigation action
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-02985-8

Flood damage costs under the sea level rise with
warming of 1.5 ◦C and 2 ◦C
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aacc76/pdf



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