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> What exactly was done because of pressure? In the past 2 decades: * Big business on the whole went from ignoring or denying climate change to embracing solu
by perrygeo 6y ago
> What exactly was done because of pressure?
In the past 2 decades:
* Big business on the whole went from ignoring or denying climate change to embracing solutions.
* Innovation in alternative energy tech and its production has driven prices for non-carbon energy down to parity with coal.
* The political world has gone from ignoring it to signing on to international support for climate agreements.
* People are aware of the issue and it's a central issue to billions of voters globally.
* Carbon capture and other methods of reducing atmospheric carbon are being developed and scaled up significantly.
> I find your line of reasoning maddening
I can't prove causality but any good faith scientific argument needs to at least consider the hypothesis that the efforts of the last two decades might have had an effect. Simply ignoring the changes and saying that the original predictions were "wrong" is not a good faith argument, let alone a scientific one.
- psychiatrist24 6y agoI don't think the article was about pointing out that the original predictions were wrong. It was about the need to adjust them according to actual developments. About the other points, it is possible that politics had some effect, but I personally rather doubt it. The general assumption that businesses would just waste away energy is incorrect imo. There is always an incentive to become more efficient.