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Belief should always be optional. Behavior based on that belief shouldn't. Question climate change all you like, but stop polluting until you've convinced the
by tbrownaw 9y ago
Belief should always be optional. Behavior based on that belief shouldn't.
Question climate change all you like, but stop polluting until you've convinced the majority of climate scientists.
Just because they're all convinced it's completely our fault things are changing, doesn't mean that the prescribed remedies will actually work.
What if the models are wrong on the low side, and we're wasting resources trying to stop the inevitable when we should be figuring out how to survive it?
- njarboe 9y agoThere is no real "inevitable" with climate change. More CO2 in the atmosphere will cause higher temperatures. There may be a "tipping point" where a little more CO2 will cause the system to shift dramatically to a higher temperature. But we sure don't know where that is. To give up trying to do anything about climate change (lower emissions, geoengineering, etc.) because it is inevitable we will have 2 degrees of temperature rise no matter what, is to loose track of the fact that 2 degrees would be much better 5 degrees which is much better than 10 degrees.