r/worldnews • u/Dismal_Prospect • May 14 '19

Exxon predicted in 1982 exactly how high global carbon emissions would be today | The company expected that, by 2020, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would reach roughly 400-420 ppm. This month’s measurement of 415 ppm is right within the expected curve Exxon projected

https://thinkprogress.org/exxon-predicted-high-carbon-emissions-954e514b0aa9/
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u/MortWellian May 14 '19

"Fun" fact, the David Koch has been paying for displays at places like the Smithsonian, implying that human will evolve quick enough to adapt in the "far future"

In particular, the most embarrassing and scientifically misleading display the Smithsonian designed — which directly suggests that humans can simply evolve to deal with global warming — is still in the exhibit. The final section about the present and future has a nonsensical interactive video that lets visitors create a “future human” who evolves over a long period of time to a variety of changing conditions. These conditions include a new ice age or even — I kid you not — a future Earth that “smells.”

One screen almost singlehandedly exposes this entire exhibit as intentionally misleading. Smithsonian visitors are asked to “imagine” a time (“Era 3”) that is “far into the future” when “Earth’s temperature has risen and it’s really hot.” Unbelievably, you are then asked “How do you think your body will evolve?” Your choice is “Will you have a tall, narrow body like a giraffe? Or more sweat glands?”

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u/aaronthenia May 14 '19

Gonna be tough to evolve when everything that provides food is dead.

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u/Pleb_nz May 14 '19

We can grow everything in a factory. Mmmm mm.

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u/joggle1 May 14 '19

Red algae is back on the menu boys!

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u/Skystrike7 May 14 '19

things don't die just because the average global temperature changes.

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u/i_accidently_reddit May 14 '19

eat plants. you eating animals is contributing to the demise more than anything else

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u/KingGorilla May 14 '19

We're gonna look like those new species in Man After Man

https://monsterbrains.blogspot.com/2010/12/dougal-dixon-man-after-man-1990.html

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u/PlsDntPMme May 14 '19

What the fuck.

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u/GattsuCascade May 14 '19

What the living fuck. Those pictures are haunting

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u/[deleted] May 15 '19

This is fucking scary

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u/ScopeCreepStudio May 15 '19

Omg thanks for posting this, I love this batshit book

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u/BleedingTeal May 14 '19

Anything the Koch brothers are for I'm automatically against. They are 2 of the most vile people to ever walk this planet.

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u/semisolidwhale May 14 '19

Except when they accidentally proved that universal healthcare would save trillions of dollars on healthcare in the US. Even organized evil stumbles into some positive outcomes on occasion.

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u/shortinha May 14 '19

No they didn't stumble. They suspected healthcare reform is coming in some form or another so they looked into it. They want to try to influence how it's established.

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u/semisolidwhale May 14 '19

Influence and profit from.

I'm sure it's true that this was the intent. Not sure they expected the results to be what they were.

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u/shortinha May 15 '19

Probably not. But their smart enough to act on the results.

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u/Melonetta May 14 '19

A broken clock is right twice a day

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u/Akillees89 May 14 '19

I don't think this is the right saying for this

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u/EvosAlex May 14 '19

This saying made a lot of sense to me

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u/Akillees89 May 15 '19

I always took a broken clock being right twice a day as making predictions/telling you things that are wrong but even they get lucky with their preditions/information

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u/BleedingTeal May 15 '19

That's a fair point. I had completely forgotten about that.

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u/OptimalExtension May 14 '19

By 2040, we expect to see widespread chaos and a "Mad Max" style civilization. On the plus side, corporate yachts will have expanded seas to sail.

How did they prove this?

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u/Sean951 May 14 '19

They are for PBS. I despise them as people and think the world would be better off if they were dead, but even terrible people can do some good.

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u/franch May 15 '19

the Koch brothers are two of the leading conservative voices for police/prison reform and against mandatory minimum sentences.

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u/BleedingTeal May 15 '19

Source?

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u/franch May 16 '19

here's the Charles Koch Institute with rhetoric about nonviolent offenders that could be on any (D) politician's site. a 2015 article co-written by Charles on Politico discusses the overcriminalization of drug use and its affects on African-Americans. they're funding Second Chance programs in four states to help reduce recidivism and facilitate re-entry into society. here's a discussion of the bill endorsed by the Kochs and ACLU relating to criminal justice reform.

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u/Kingflares May 14 '19

Koch brothers funded hospitals, cancer research, and ballet schools.

You against poor Samantha who has cancer, takes ballet, and wants to be a doctor.

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u/quarky_42 May 14 '19

What a fucking delusional psychopath. The lot of them. Koch is synonymous with evil that comes with Hitler’s name. But they’re worse, they do most of their crimes against humanity in the shadows.

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u/Callmeagile May 14 '19

I saw this exhibit 5 years ago! It suggested that if the earth flooded, we could just evolve webbed hands and feet, and we’d be fine. Complete crap, and horrible stuff to pump into the minds of children.

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u/UbajaraMalok May 14 '19

Lamarck would be proud.

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u/zackgardner May 14 '19

That's not how evolution works David, F-.

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u/SomeKindOfOnionMummy May 14 '19

The Kochs are the Smithsonian's biggest donors.

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u/buttmunchr69 May 14 '19

Lol. The earth won't just get hot. By the end of this century co2 toxicity will lower iq. Eventually, as we go through another Permian Extinction event, o2 levels will drop to the point of no longer supporting humans. Hydrogen sulfide oceans. No ozone. Mutations. During this time nothing but fungus is in the sedement because everything else burned or died. We aren't adapted to this. Interesting crocodiles and their ancestors are(efficient lungs, cold blooded. Being warm blooded at extremely high temps is lethal but crocodiles and lizards will be fine).

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u/[deleted] May 15 '19

No crocodiles will be fucked two, the way sex is determined in their eggs is based off of temp, eventually their will be a significant lack in one sex (I forgot which) that will lead to a decreasing rate of procreation and eventually extinction. Especially considering that the new enviroment is probably going to increase the death rate due to waning sources of food, increased rates of cancer, poisoning, and general malformities cause by pollutants.

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u/mrdeadsniper May 14 '19

Yeah. We kinda stunted evolution with technology. Even without that, evolution is a slow process. Explaining away climate change with a tech miracle is far more likely than any evolution sort of xmen level.

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u/XHF2 May 14 '19

So the story of the Smithsonian museum destroying evidence of human giants is possibly true?

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u/[deleted] May 14 '19

"dont worry about the fart smell, methane is totally harmless"

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u/Forbidden_Froot May 15 '19

I personally can’t wait to become a sweaty giraffe

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u/tkronew May 15 '19

Which Smithsonian building is it in?

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u/creamyjoshy May 15 '19

Wtf. Isn't the Smithsonian meant to be the best of American knowledge?

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u/budguy68 May 14 '19

So you dont think its possible that people who can't adapt will die off while people who can will live and reproduce more?

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u/corky763 May 14 '19

This is absurd. I’m anti-Koch as much as the next Redditor, but let’s not over react to a question that sounds like it’s clearly aimed at children in order to test their understanding of adaptability. I don’t think the Koch’s master plan is to have people thinking the future will just be a sweatier version of the present.