Monthly Climate Dinner

This month we're going to be talking about a report I did on what the IPCC Reports say about the impacts of climate change that will be felt by humans by 2100.

One thing that I have found large language model AI's are very good at is reading long documents and then answering questions about them.

Every few years an IPCC report comes out, and they're typically 1,000 pages long. A lot of careful work goes into them. Most environmentalists, particularly those with jobs, lack the time to read and digest them in their entirety. Often, some of the most famous voices of the climate movement make all sorts of bold statements that are just not backed up by the reports, which is an embarrassment. ChatGPT accounts are free and ChatGPT has read all the IPCC reports. Most environmentalists should be encouraged to engage in conversation with it about what is and isn't in the reports.

Some climate skeptics like to argue that the negative impacts from climate are unlikely to be bad enough to justify the expense and inconvenience of decarbonizing the economy, but they ignore the fat tails -- the low but substantial probabilities of dire worst-case outcomes.