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[–] django@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 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 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 1 week ago

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

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