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Strangely I've been reading the opposite should be occurring: https://www.uvm.edu/gund/news/global-warming-more-insects-hungrier-crops https://www.uvm.edu/gund/

Strangely I've been reading the opposite should be occurring: https://www.uvm.edu/gund/news/global-warming-more-insects-hungrier-crops https://www.uvm.edu/gund/news/global-warming-more-insects-hu... Global warming should be increasing insect metabolism and their populations. I think it's very possible that we actually don't know what's happening, or if our solutions are making things worse as we try to engineer nature back to what we believe to be the "natural state." The only thing we can do is try to be as clean as possible, but I often wonder if what we find as solutions now are just going to cause massive problems in the future. There is no way to really tell.

Diederich 8y ago
Global warming/climate change is, above all, one result of an experiment of unprecedented scope. "What happens to this planet when we release vast quantities of heat trapping material into the air?" This is the very first time we've run this experiment, and the experiment is ongoing. In other words, there are and will continue to be enormous uncertainties about the details of what's ahead of us. > if our solutions are making things worse as we try to engineer As what one might call a 'climate change alarmist', going back a couple of decades now, I hear you and I don't necessarily disagree. I am far less eager to push forward with, for example, geoengineering and other grand responses than my fellow climate change 'true believers', simply because of how uncertain all of this is. Having said that, we as a civilization need to increase all manner of related research 100x or 10,000x, as soon as possible. In the same way that we have been forced to directly manage all kinds of natural resources because of our actions (for example: deer populations), so also will we be likely required to directly manage our atmosphere in various ways. But we need to be really fucking careful about it.

Diederich 8y ago

Global warming/climate change is, above all, one result of an experiment of unprecedented scope. "What happens to this planet when we release vast quantities of heat trapping material into the air?" This is the very first time we've run this experiment, and the experiment is ongoing. In other words, there are and will continue to be enormous uncertainties about the details of what's ahead of us. > if our solutions are making things worse as we try to engineer As what one might call a 'climate change alarmist', going back a couple of decades now, I hear you and I don't necessarily disagree. I am far less eager to push forward with, for example, geoengineering and other grand responses than my fellow climate change 'true believers', simply because of how uncertain all of this is. Having said that, we as a civilization need to increase all manner of related research 100x or 10,000x, as soon as possible. In the same way that we have been forced to directly manage all kinds of natural resources because of our actions (for example: deer populations), so also will we be likely required to directly manage our atmosphere in various ways. But we need to be really fucking careful about it.