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>more weather unpredictability That's the one to watch. I don't think your estimate is out of line, even if 'compared to wars, this is a walk in the park' is s
by Applejinx 5y ago
>more weather unpredictability
That's the one to watch. I don't think your estimate is out of line, even if 'compared to wars, this is a walk in the park' is seemingly inflammatory.
Climate is a giant chaotic system. It gets more violent as the base energy put into it, increases. This is not linear. How nonlinear? We'll see.
Our experience with catastrophic weather emergencies is the human-facing side of this chaotic system. The amount of energy vented by the atmosphere during these events is comparable to the destruction inflicted by wars… but the climate doesn't run out of bombs, or declare peace. It's a completely mindless thing that follows general heuristics which outline the extent of expected responses out of the chaotic, nondeterministic system… and we are in the process of redefining what these heuristics mean.
While, at the same time, climate is in the process of rapidly altering these definitions out from under us.
We're gonna be seeing city-flattening weather events way sooner and more often than we see sustained wet-bulb temperatures inimical to life in populated areas. Our whole understanding of surviving on this planet will get redefined, first slowly and then rapidly.
We as a species will be able to do this and will survive, but it's a big deal and comparable to colonizing other planets.