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< At this level of CO2, reducing it is not a very pressing goal to most of the people. If it takes 30 years for 'this level of CO2' to stop climbing, it will b
by 8bitsrule 7y ago
< At this level of CO2, reducing it is not a very pressing goal to most of the people.
If it takes 30 years for 'this level of CO2' to stop climbing, it will be a very pressing goal with no non-drastic solutions.
Given that we still can't all agree that we've already f'd it up severely (derp) I see see no reason to think that people will feel secure with 'fooling around with Mother Nature'. The potential for these experiments to go wrong is real, unlike our confidence in our wisdom. Doesn't seem like an opportune time to potentially create more ways to screw ourselves.
- chr1 7y agoOn one hand you have confidence in our wisdom (computational models) to predict climate 30 years forward, on the other hand you do not trust the same models to predict the effect of our modifications applied in a controllable manner? I agree that many people who use climate change as religion (see the insightful comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20726497 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20726497) would be vehemently opposed to climate engineering, but luckily most people care about real issues, that's why i expect the "don't eat meat, don't fly, don't have children" crowd to fail, and drastic solutions like geoengineering to be applied eventually.
- 8bitsrule 7y agoI don't trust any models (too much science background). But I don't need a weatherman to see the obvious result of careless, self-serving philosophies. And I expect more than you do from the human race, and that the rest of the world will shame our selfish willfully ignorant US into doing its share.