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Glad you responded! Lots of thoughts on this. The estimates are sure to be not exactly right. But I don't let that hold me up! I see sooooo many people get st
by tito 7y ago
Glad you responded! Lots of thoughts on this.
The estimates are sure to be not exactly right. But I don't let that hold me up!
I see sooooo many people get stuck because they can't figure out "Well is it 700 billion tons of carbon in the air or 900? Will the the warming 4 degrees C or 5?". "I can't do anything if I don't know exactly what it is".
To me it's all just an excuse to do nothing. And I understand it, it's a relief to feel powerless sometimes, "I can't do anything about this, oh well". But we have to fight that. I know there's more carbon in the air than we know what to do with, and we have to take it out. Current capacities are so much smaller than any estimate of the order of magnitude, that my role is building, not predicting.
We do need more modelers and monitors. However, there is a diminishing return to modeling and modeling and modeling. So we need 10X more modeler and 100,000X people building and taking action.
- mooneater 7y agoI think we agree, all Im saying in addition is, "total cost to humanity" is extremely hard to model, far harder than a physical climate model, so hard its near meaningless.