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[–] django@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

“We’re losing 120 calories per person, per day, for every degree of global warming.”

That is just 0,006% of 2000kcal per degree? Doesn't sound like that much tbh.

Edit: the publication in nature contains different information:

We estimate that global production declines 5.5 × 1014 kcal annually per 1 °C global mean surface temperature (GMST) rise (120 kcal per person per day or 4.4% of recommended consumption per 1 °C; P < 0.001).

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09085-w

[–] fake_meows@sopuli.xyz 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 points 5 days ago

They were actually right. Whoever transcribed that quote didn't get the correct Calorie. Not to blame them.

[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 0 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Americans use calorie for the SI kcal. Allergic to metric prefixes.

[–] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Assholes never seem to miss an opportunity to shoehorn their pet project into every fuckdamn conversation...

[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

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.

[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Americans use Calorie for kcal.

It's capitalized.

[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Yeah, legally. But not colloquially. This is a colloquial publication (Forbes). They used calorie knowing Americans would know it as a Calorie or kcal