https://sjgenco.medium.com/papering-over-overshoot-537bf73e467a
"In his latest ode to collapse, Umair, our resident Casandra here on Medium,
mentions how many of our more recent IPCC climate scenarios involve the idea of
“overshoot”, which he describes as a process in which:
“the temperature rises, and then it comes down, doing a whole lot of damage
along the way”
One commentator replied that maybe Umair didn’t understand the term
“overshoot”, which has a well-known and long-established
different meaning.
Another commentator replied that Umair was using the term correctly, but this
was a newer meaning of “overshoot”, not the original one.
I added a reply to the thread, raising a related question:
why obscure a
well-established term by giving it a new meaning unrelated to its original
meaning? Let me just say it got my
Spidey Sense tingling. Here’s what I
wrote (I’ve added some references for context)."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
