Comment Comment by kerneloftruth It was actually 12 years:https://news.yahoo.com/ocasio-cortez-world-going-end-1505170...The point is, beware making quantified predictions. Climate change is real, but when one makes hyperbolic predictions with a quantified timeframe, and then it doesn't happen, the argument is weakened, and skeptics are reinforced.Al Gore learned the same lesson. parent kerneloftruth 4 years ago
https://news.yahoo.com/ocasio-cortez-world-going-end-1505170...
The point is, beware making quantified predictions. Climate change is real, but when one makes hyperbolic predictions with a quantified timeframe, and then it doesn't happen, the argument is weakened, and skeptics are reinforced.
Al Gore learned the same lesson.