I find graphs whose rate of increase increases at an increasing rate until they form right angles make good framing squares.
In particular the IPCC and the UN projections if graphed would show their projections rate of increase graphed as a slope is increasing at an increasing rate.
The problem is that only in pure mathematics can exponential curves go to infinity, in social systems they tend to break down as fast as they rise.
Some people call this an exponential curve. It usually scales to just show the corner so large you don’t even realize it is a corner. Inside the corner there is a lot going on.
"In October 1838, that is, fifteen months after I had begun my systematic inquiry, I happened to read for amusement Malthus on Population,and being well prepared to appreciate the struggle for existence which everywhere goes on from long-continued observation of the habits of animals and plants, it at once struck me that under these circumstances favourable variations would tend to be preserved, and unfavourable ones to be destroyed.The results of this would be the formation of a new species. Here, then I had at last got a theory by which to work".
Charles Darwin, from his autobiography. (1876)
This often quoted passage reflects the significance Darwin affords Malthus in formulating his theory of Natural Selection. What "struck" Darwin in Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) was Malthus's observation that in nature plants and animals produce far more offspring than can survive, and that Man too is capable of overproducing if left unchecked.
Malthus concluded that unless family size was regulated,man's misery of famine would become globally epidemic and eventually consume Man. Malthus' view that poverty and famine were natural outcomes of population growth and food supply was not popular among social reformers who believed that with proper social structures, all ills of man could be eradicated.
Then bang, everything we ever thought we had accomplished is gone as if with a snap of the fingers.
Warming is a right angle corner not just for us but for everything that walks, crawls, swims, flies or just exists. Some species like lobsters and great white sharks will attempt to find a solution by migrating north. What are we going to do about it?