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Here’s what they were saying in 2004: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2004/feb/22/usnews.theobserver https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2004/feb/2
by mrfusion 5y ago
Here’s what they were saying in 2004:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2004/feb/22/usnews.theobserver https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2004/feb/22/usnews.t...
I’m not ready to subscribe to the panic just yet. Don’t get me wrong, it’s still worth taking measures to limit co2 but I’m not going to panic about it.
- ryandrake 5y agoNews about climate change always reminds me of that "Truck almost hits a pole" meme [1]. We're always "on the catastrophic path" and "nearing irreversible damage" and "almost permanently fucked". I'm personally not a climate denier, but I can understand the skepticism. For the last 20 or so years, we've always been really really close to utter disaster. To get a little more provocative, it feels like Christians declaring Jesus will be returning Any Day Now, for the last 2000 years. 1: https://imgur.com/r/gifs/kuplW0m https://imgur.com/r/gifs/kuplW0m
- paulmd 5y agoScience communicators try to avoid it because implying that things are on an irreversible course tends to cause people to shrug and say "oh well, guess that's that then". But things can actually always get worse, and they will if something isn't done. But we're already there. Things are catastrophic right now. Wildfires are intensifying, hurricanes are intensifying, we're having "hundred year" floods every 5-10 years, the coral reefs are dying from the carbon dioxide in the air. And this is just the start, things are going to be far worse in another 50 years unless we take action now.
- mrfusion 5y agoThis says reefs are doing well: https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2021/07/23/peter-ridd-record-coral-cover-of-great-barrier-reef-shames-climate-alarmists/ https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2021/07/23/pet...