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That is just 0,006% of 2000kcal per degree? Doesn't sound like that much tbh.
Edit: the publication in nature contains different information:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09085-w
I believe you shifted the decimal place. You should have 6%, not 0.006%
6% per degree of warming, and it could be 3 or 4 degrees or whatever...I believe they used 3.5° and a total damage of ~20% as one of the projections for the end of the century.
They also call for significant losses to production by 2050.
They were actually right. Whoever transcribed that quote didn't get the correct Calorie. Not to blame them.
Americans use calorie for the SI kcal. Allergic to metric prefixes.
Americans use Calorie for kcal.
It's capitalized.
Yeah, legally. But not colloquially. This is a colloquial publication (Forbes). They used calorie knowing Americans would know it as a Calorie or kcal
Assholes never seem to miss an opportunity to shoehorn their pet project into every fuckdamn conversation...
Hey asshole, people live within the context of their own lives, not yours. I have no fucking pet project, I'm an American, this is an American publication, someone in the comments got the math wrong because they were using SI calorie for the colloquial American term for kilocalorie (or at least, that would explain a three digit shift easily).
Don't insult me just because you didn't understand. Get clarification, you fuck.