• JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social
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    3 hours ago

    Er, well… it’s now year 2025, AGCC has been scientifically documented and publicly talked about for decades, and is now arguably the biggest existential threat to humanity?

    You know… as seen in increasingly dangerous storm systems year after year, rising global temps year after year, more wildfires, more droughts, rising ocean acidification, rising difficulty growing crops, the holocene extinction accelerating… things like that? All are directly impacted by AGCC, to name a few.

    Getting harder and harder to live under a rock, tell you hwat.

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      3 hours ago

      I’m not questioning how real anthropogenic global climate change is. I’m questioning your decision of using just the initials assuming everyone understand automatically.

      When I googled “AGCC meaning” the suggestions were:

      AGenesis of the Corpus Callosum
      Alderney Gambling Control Commission
      Arab Gulf Cooperation Council
      Aberdeen & Grampian Chamber of Commerce Action for a Global Climate Community
      Agencia Comercial Spirits ltd (AGCC)

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        3 hours ago

        I didn’t assume. People are going to understand and misunderstand terms no matter what acronym or definition is used, like CC or GCC. Or they’ll deny, get it twisted, whatever. Or ask a curious followup, as you did.

        When I googled “AGCC meaning” the suggestions were:

        Well, context is king. If you asked what it meant within that sentence, then it might be able to narrow things down better. We all do this all the time, of course.

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            2 hours ago

            For the reader, I would think mostly “yes.”

            For the writer, I recall him being focused moreso on the main thought he wanted to express. And his thoughts have been pretty scattered indeed these days, focus harder to come by…

            Anyway, I think that’s enough of all that. Ciao!

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      3 hours ago

      Not OP - I’ve been exposed to Climate Change news to the point of possible depression but I’ve never seen the concept referred to as AGCC before too

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        3 hours ago

        One way that serves a purpose is in making it clear that this isn’t just some natural variance going on, for example in taking on the hand-wavers who like to say ‘oh, it all goes in cycles; nothing to worry about!’

        So GCC sometimes gets appended with an “A” for “anthropomorphic” to make it crystal clear that (just like the Holocene Extinction) it’s largely (or wholly) man-made. Personally I tend to fluctuate between terms, mainly based on recency bias and just whatever my naked ape brain happens to settle on. :P