Peckingjay

While I believe there might be some possibility that we might see some catastrophic events caused by climate change or human conflicts, I highly doubt that they would completely wipe humanity and/or make Earth wholly unhabitable. I can think of some scenarios that would lead to devastating losses and long-term consequences but I have a hard time picturing a complete extinction happening within 15 years, barring some crazy unlikely scenario like a big meteorite impact.

With further exploits, possibly, but not with Checkm8 alone.

He just editted his link. Not sure if he mistakenly listed the first article or not, anyways, this was the article he linked originally: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/01/what-denie...

I actually know a bank with an office close to me that still recruits COBOL developers to maintain some of their old legacy systems, while they slowly transition to newer tech. These people get paid pretty well by the way.

IPCC reports are all about getting scientific data acknowledged officially by governments. Of course many of those government officials participating in the process are going to push back against a draft that contains statements that have consequences that inconvenience them on the political field. That's to be expected. So yeah, when reading an IPCC report it's good to keep in mind that it is going to be conservative.