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More importantly, we should ask, should we? If the worst outcome is 3ft rise in sea level in 100 years, what’s the point of spending $50t+?

brianberns 8y ago
Do you enjoy breathing oxygen? If so, you might want to read the linked article.
- eanzenberg 8y ago
  I forgot I live in the ocean..
  - brianberns 8y ago
    The ocean produces 70% of the oxygen that you breathe.
  - ehnto 8y ago
    You live in the oceans ecosystem. I am also just baffled you would put some monetary tokens we literally made up as higher priority than the real, physical environment you live in. We will spend countless more money surviving and adapting. It will be an economic disaster as well as an environmental one.
  - anigbrowl 8y ago
    Looks like the oxygen deprivation is already having an impact.
ehnto 8y ago
Sea levels rising is just one of the symptoms. Complete ecosystems dying, including many we rely on for food, is another. Extreme weather patterns including higher frequencies of devastating natural disasters is another. This isn't just in other places either, no matter where you live, highland, lowland, tropical, arid, you will be affected. What good is $50t when the economy that accepts it is going haywire as countless resources are "refactored" by the environment.
mrpopo 8y ago
3 feet sea level rise is not the worst outcome, it's practically locked in according to NASA. https://weather.com/science/environment/news/nasa-sea-level-rise-3-feet-end-of-century https://weather.com/science/environment/news/nasa-sea-level-... Note that we have been underestimating the long-term effects of climate change routinely for the past 20 years, and even then people are calling the conclusions "exaggerated" and wonder what is the point. If you read some of the sources from Wikipedia, some projections estimate more than 2.4 meters rise. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_level_rise https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_level_rise Bangladesh is the poster child for rising sea level dangers. It's not just about loss of coastal areas (40%), but also increased salinity in drinking water, less fertile lands. People will lose their houses and starve. https://judithcurry.com/2013/10/07/bangladesh-sea-level-rise/ https://judithcurry.com/2013/10/07/bangladesh-sea-level-rise... Globally, the consequences are so spread and so complex that it's really hard to grasp. So, yes, we should do something. Unless you say you understand all the consequences and assume them, but frankly I would not believe you.

brianberns 8y ago

Do you enjoy breathing oxygen? If so, you might want to read the linked article.

eanzenberg 8y ago
I forgot I live in the ocean..
- brianberns 8y ago
  The ocean produces 70% of the oxygen that you breathe.
- ehnto 8y ago
  You live in the oceans ecosystem. I am also just baffled you would put some monetary tokens we literally made up as higher priority than the real, physical environment you live in. We will spend countless more money surviving and adapting. It will be an economic disaster as well as an environmental one.
- anigbrowl 8y ago
  Looks like the oxygen deprivation is already having an impact.

ehnto 8y ago

Sea levels rising is just one of the symptoms. Complete ecosystems dying, including many we rely on for food, is another. Extreme weather patterns including higher frequencies of devastating natural disasters is another. This isn't just in other places either, no matter where you live, highland, lowland, tropical, arid, you will be affected. What good is $50t when the economy that accepts it is going haywire as countless resources are "refactored" by the environment.

mrpopo 8y ago

3 feet sea level rise is not the worst outcome, it's practically locked in according to NASA. https://weather.com/science/environment/news/nasa-sea-level-rise-3-feet-end-of-century https://weather.com/science/environment/news/nasa-sea-level-... Note that we have been underestimating the long-term effects of climate change routinely for the past 20 years, and even then people are calling the conclusions "exaggerated" and wonder what is the point. If you read some of the sources from Wikipedia, some projections estimate more than 2.4 meters rise. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_level_rise https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_level_rise Bangladesh is the poster child for rising sea level dangers. It's not just about loss of coastal areas (40%), but also increased salinity in drinking water, less fertile lands. People will lose their houses and starve. https://judithcurry.com/2013/10/07/bangladesh-sea-level-rise/ https://judithcurry.com/2013/10/07/bangladesh-sea-level-rise... Globally, the consequences are so spread and so complex that it's really hard to grasp. So, yes, we should do something. Unless you say you understand all the consequences and assume them, but frankly I would not believe you.