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The end of the Arctic as we know it
- Jemm 7y agoWe are desperately screwing up this planet, but, man, that is not science. That is a bunch of pretty pics from an expedition. The ice breaks up every year. They're observing weather, not climate. All the superlatives come from anecdotal observation and that is not science--there's no control group. We have zero idea if we're looking at long period fluctuations. Meanwhile, we're looking at an arthropod apocalypse, a bug barbecue, a mass extinction. We have evidence for that one, because we can observe populations separated far enough apart to be isolated from local variations. We have evidence of plastic in the ocean. Of drug-resistant organisms. Of the loss of biodiversity. We can see what we're doing to this planet out every window. Where are the monarchs? Where are the frogs? In short, we have overwhelming evidence for every environmental atrocity taking place right now... except for climate change. Focusing on climate change is just a convenient way of temporizing while we debate the evidence. Doing nothing about a future problem while staring out the window at a mass extinction is just peak stupidity.
- nwrk 7y agoYou summed it right. 100% agree