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Don't forget that no matter how hot the planet gets, the angle of Earth's rotation is not going to change. Canada might get warmer, but it will still receive co

Don't forget that no matter how hot the planet gets, the angle of Earth's rotation is not going to change. Canada might get warmer, but it will still receive completely different patterns of sunlight to the United States - and, of course, crops need specific light conditions to grow efficiently, not just specific temperatures. So just because Canada is getting warmer that doesn't mean we can necessarily move all our food production further north and keep going as normal. We're screwed.

marcus_holmes 6y ago
This attitude basically says "everything was perfect 100 years ago, and any change to that is going to make things worse". Since the climate has always been changing, and 100 years ago we were coming out of the "little Ice Age"... why was that so perfect? There must be some changes from global warming that are beneficial, surely?
- loopz 6y ago
  The speed of abrupt change may be lethal to 90%+ of life as we know it unless we slow it down without causing an Ice Age.
  - taborj 6y ago
    [citation needed] Not trying to be snarky, but I see claims like this all the time (and not just about climate change), and nobody seems to provide a reputable source for said claims. Cite your source, just like you were in school.
    - loopz 6y ago
      https://ipbes.net/news/Media-Release-Global-Assessment#5-By%20the%20numbers https://ipbes.net/news/Media-Release-Global-Assessment#5-By%... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZfcDmtGa9I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZfcDmtGa9I
- _ph_ 6y ago
  Yes, biologically speaking, most hings were perfect 100 years ago. Because most of the planet was in an equilibrium. Any rapid change from that is making things worse for some time. We are changing the climate faster than the system can adapt to. This doesn't exclude that some things might get better long term, but short term (a century or more), it is mostly bad.

marcus_holmes 6y ago

This attitude basically says "everything was perfect 100 years ago, and any change to that is going to make things worse". Since the climate has always been changing, and 100 years ago we were coming out of the "little Ice Age"... why was that so perfect? There must be some changes from global warming that are beneficial, surely?

loopz 6y ago
The speed of abrupt change may be lethal to 90%+ of life as we know it unless we slow it down without causing an Ice Age.
- taborj 6y ago
  [citation needed] Not trying to be snarky, but I see claims like this all the time (and not just about climate change), and nobody seems to provide a reputable source for said claims. Cite your source, just like you were in school.
  - loopz 6y ago
    https://ipbes.net/news/Media-Release-Global-Assessment#5-By%20the%20numbers https://ipbes.net/news/Media-Release-Global-Assessment#5-By%... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZfcDmtGa9I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZfcDmtGa9I
_ph_ 6y ago
Yes, biologically speaking, most hings were perfect 100 years ago. Because most of the planet was in an equilibrium. Any rapid change from that is making things worse for some time. We are changing the climate faster than the system can adapt to. This doesn't exclude that some things might get better long term, but short term (a century or more), it is mostly bad.