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Your post conveys confusion and suggests a bad actor. Let me try to clear up a few points in good faith: 1: The impact of the united states and Europe is now n
by kuzehanka 8y ago
Your post conveys confusion and suggests a bad actor. Let me try to clear up a few points in good faith:
1: The impact of the united states and Europe is now negligible. They have undergone their transition and have emitted most of the greenhouse gases they were going to. There was a time delay between those emissions and the associated global temperature rise. The incoming transition of China/India/Africa dwarfs that.
2: Atmospheric CO2 is not the only and not the most potent greenhouse gas we are emitting. It is just the most abundant.
3: We are in fact overdue for an ice age. We are experiencing a relatively extremely young climate period called the Holocene[1]. It is a warm gap in the middle of an ice age. This warm gap for the last few thousand years is what allowed civilisations to form. Given what we know about historical trends, we should have plunged back into the ice age right about now. It is entirely possible that anthropogenic climate change is the only reason we are not in an ice age today.
4: We are uncovering new positive feedback effects in the greenhouse loop on a monthly basis now. Whatever climate models exist, no matter how alarmist, are actually turning out to be conservative due to all the new feedback mechanisms we're discovering.
5: We face a double threat. Either a runaway greenhouse effect that turns earth into Venus 2.0, or a natural reversion to the ice age which brings an end to civilisation. The only way we continue to thrive as a species is if we get good at predicting and manipulating the climate of our host planet. One way or another, it will end us if left unchecked.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene