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Nuance, nor perspective, among many other things, do not lend themselves well to any discussion about climate change, which is awfully sad. You are exactly corr

by bedhead 11y ago

Nuance, nor perspective, among many other things, do not lend themselves well to any discussion about climate change, which is awfully sad. You are exactly correct that this is a 21st century religion, regardless of the accuracy of the discussion around it.

bedhead 11y ago
Ah yes, the predictable downvotes which only validate my comment.
Daishiman 11y ago
No, you're being downvoted because the only reason you think there isn't nuance or perspective is because you seem to be ignoring it. You want perspective? The mass die-offs in fish stocks, vertebrate life, and ecosystem damage is essentially unrecoverable. We are changing the atmospheric composition at a rate greater than that of many of the natural catastrophes that have wiped out a significan amount of the biosphere. The models that work in accordance to our understanding of climate science have very well-delineated scenarios, all of which are considerably worse than the status quo. Some of those have consequences which will end in the Earth having a significantly lower carrying capacity for life, human included. And not in a thousand years; we're talking a span of 30 to 50. Have you even seen the effects that we're having on the ocean through acidification? What do you think will happen when the ocean can no longer support the amounts of phitoplankton responsible for generating most of the oxygen we use, and which are the base of the planet's food chain? Have you every studied agronomical sciences? Do you know what the impact on crops is when you have extended flooding and drought, or when the average temperature of a site is raised by a few degrees?
- bedhead 11y ago
  Again, your hyper-alarmist reply only bolsters my point. No perspective, no rationality, just pure paranoia. Anyone with even a slightly divergent view continues to be dissuaded from saying anything. These sorts of responses only validate my views. I'll say a prayer for the phitoplankton, though [eye roll].
  - Daishiman 11y ago
    There's literally thousands of scientific papers in disciplines of environmental science, agronomical sciences, glaciology, geology, oceanography, climate science, and the dozens of biological subdisciplines which are documenting this. Do you want to bring on the evidence or do I need to quote a few hundred papers authored by experts in their respective fields?
  - Daishiman 11y ago
    There's literally thousands of scientific papers in disciplines of environmental science, agronomical sciences, glaciology, geology, oceanography, climate science, and the dozens of biological subdisciplines which are documenting this. Do you want to bring on the evidence or do I need to quote a few hundred papers authored by experts in their respective fields?

by bedhead 11y ago

bedhead 11y ago

Ah yes, the predictable downvotes which only validate my comment.

Daishiman 11y ago

No, you're being downvoted because the only reason you think there isn't nuance or perspective is because you seem to be ignoring it. You want perspective? The mass die-offs in fish stocks, vertebrate life, and ecosystem damage is essentially unrecoverable. We are changing the atmospheric composition at a rate greater than that of many of the natural catastrophes that have wiped out a significan amount of the biosphere. The models that work in accordance to our understanding of climate science have very well-delineated scenarios, all of which are considerably worse than the status quo. Some of those have consequences which will end in the Earth having a significantly lower carrying capacity for life, human included. And not in a thousand years; we're talking a span of 30 to 50. Have you even seen the effects that we're having on the ocean through acidification? What do you think will happen when the ocean can no longer support the amounts of phitoplankton responsible for generating most of the oxygen we use, and which are the base of the planet's food chain? Have you every studied agronomical sciences? Do you know what the impact on crops is when you have extended flooding and drought, or when the average temperature of a site is raised by a few degrees?

bedhead 11y ago
Again, your hyper-alarmist reply only bolsters my point. No perspective, no rationality, just pure paranoia. Anyone with even a slightly divergent view continues to be dissuaded from saying anything. These sorts of responses only validate my views. I'll say a prayer for the phitoplankton, though [eye roll].
- Daishiman 11y ago
  There's literally thousands of scientific papers in disciplines of environmental science, agronomical sciences, glaciology, geology, oceanography, climate science, and the dozens of biological subdisciplines which are documenting this. Do you want to bring on the evidence or do I need to quote a few hundred papers authored by experts in their respective fields?
- Daishiman 11y ago
  There's literally thousands of scientific papers in disciplines of environmental science, agronomical sciences, glaciology, geology, oceanography, climate science, and the dozens of biological subdisciplines which are documenting this. Do you want to bring on the evidence or do I need to quote a few hundred papers authored by experts in their respective fields?