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>If climate change really is the threat they say it is... When can we stop couching our discussion of climate change with clauses like this? Also, the UN has
by voisin 8y ago
>If climate change really is the threat they say it is...
When can we stop couching our discussion of climate change with clauses like this?
Also, the UN has some numbers on what happens if we increase the albedo of the planet. IIRC, the issue is that almost nothing we do can counteract the loss of albedo from the melting icecap.
- burroisolator 8y agoI think it helps to understand that only 0.37% of the world's land mass is artificial covering [0]. It makes sense that counteracting the loss of albedo from the melting icecap would be difficult as that would imply drastically increasing the artificial covering while making up for the loss of albedo from what is removed during the process. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_cover https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_cover
- bubblewrap 8y agoWhen the climate change has actually happened.
- Brometheus 8y agoClimate change happens right now! https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/styles/large/public/2016-07/temperature-figure2-2016.png https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/styles/large/publ...
- bubblewrap 8y agoBut obviously not to the degree that something dramatic has happened to the world. And a lot of assumptions presumably go into that chart, that are not shown on the chart. Anyway, I don't want to discuss climate change. Just saying there is no dramatic impact yet - once there is, maybe the language will change...
- irb 8y agoDue to the gradual nature of the change to the climate in comparison to the average human lifetime and the shifting baseline of people's perceptions, many people will never acknowledge that there has been a dramatic impact.
- bubblewrap 8y agoSome people... So what. Some people actually believe in flat earth theory.