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I am qualified enough for that but if you don't believe me then you are more than welcome to educate yourself on the subject[1]. Climate computer models create
by ThomPete 8y ago
I am qualified enough for that but if you don't believe me then you are more than welcome to educate yourself on the subject[1].
Climate computer models create a spread of outcomes each of them based on various parameters. None of them are conclusions they are all potential outcomes. The IPCC doesn't not just conclude one outcome they provide the spectrum of potential outcomes some of these outcomes have us come out just fine, others are catastrophic but none of them are conclusions.
The outcomes that are "nothing to worry about" are not more unlikely than the "the world is falling apart" outcomes and that's the point I am trying to make.
It's not rational nor sensible to prematurely solve problems that you don't know are actually going to be problems by introducing inferior and unrealiable solutions like wind and solar "just in case" especially not when those "solutions" are creating all sorts of other problems such as burning of coal when the sun is not shining or the wind is not blowing.
The irony of all this is exactly that by focusing on wind and solar i.e. inferior energy sources that will never be able to provide enough energy for the worlds growing demands we are basically ending up burning more coal and fossil fuels at the same time as the wind and solar not being clean energy sources at all. Not as bad as burning coal but still not really that environmentally friendly and hard to maintain.
But the world want's to be fooled.
[1] I took the most pro climate models article I know of. Now add to this that these models are trying to look 50 to 100 years into the future and you realize just how shaky ground we are one with these models.
Again what we can say scientifically and demonstrate is a fraction of what we speculate.
https://www.carbonbrief.org/qa-how-do-climate-models-work https://www.carbonbrief.org/qa-how-do-climate-models-work
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