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All this presupposes the global system is a 1 variable tweak away from being “fixed”: if CO2 lowered then Earth saved, else death for all species. Never mind
by whb07 5y ago
All this presupposes the global system is a 1 variable tweak away from being “fixed”:
if CO2 lowered then Earth saved, else death for all species.
Never mind that the plants consume CO2. Or that we are wise enough to know what is the correct cooling/heating rate for the planet. Or that CO2, is even the right metric at all. Last but not least, that it if humans had stayed pre-industrial, at what temperature would the planet be at and is that good or bad?
- mrfusion 5y agoCareful. You’re getting a bit off narrative there.
- newacct583 5y agoYou're just throwing up arguments to see what sticks here. Almost everything you're saying is wrong or misdirected. > Never mind that the plants consume CO2. The linked technique is literally about getting more plants to grow to consume CO2. > Or that we are wise enough to know what is the correct cooling/heating rate for the planet. Strawman. You don't have to have a perfect master plan to know that "wildly distorted CO2 levels from the geological baseline of the last epoch" is almost certainly the WRONG level from the perspective of existing ecosystems. You don't need to be able to engineer a perfect wheelbarrow to fix a broken handle with duct tape. > Or that CO2, is even the right metric at all. Same deal. It's pretty clearly a metric, and something we're messing up. You're right that there are other greenhouse forcing mechanisms (methane being the big one). That doesn't constitute an argument for "don't fix CO2". You don't skip an alignment appointment on your car because it also has a rattle under the hood.
- eximius 5y agoif the house is on fire, putting out the fire good, regardless of what other deficiencies the house might have.
- spywaregorilla 5y agohttps://xkcd.com/1732/ https://xkcd.com/1732/ Look at the graph and share your inferences on those questions?
- PeterisP 5y agoIt would be interesting to see this picture (its very bottom) updated now that five years have passed, as both the current state and the projections are meaningfully different than it was in 2016.