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I was responding to this statement: "It is also absurd to be so certain about our potential impact on something as complex and chaotic as climate." It is poss
by yequalsx 9y ago
I was responding to this statement:
"It is also absurd to be so certain about our potential impact on something as complex and chaotic as climate."
It is possible to be certain about impacts on climate. Increase CO2 in the atmosphere by a factor of a trillion. There will be runaway warming in the immediate term. This is known and well understood. I'm not claiming we are near this point but the suggestion that we can't know some effects because climate is hard is absurd.
- _Tev 9y agoCertain aspects can be certain, sure, but overall effects are beyond our understanding. We just have too small sample size ... But while we disagree on what we know you're right that it's not clear cut and one can argue we already know quite a bit - e.g. those immediate effects is something I can imagine we have good grasp on, I've not studied that in depth as most debates are about ultimate consequences. Thanks for new PoV!