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Do you consider yourself in agreement with scientists that focus on studying the climate, or in disagreement with them? From what I understand, the scientific
by karmelapple 5y ago
Do you consider yourself in agreement with scientists that focus on studying the climate, or in disagreement with them?
From what I understand, the scientific consensus [1] is not that climate change is completely caused by human activity, for the very reason you mention: it’s complicated. :)
But like you also mention, the consensus is that we are we are at least partially causing it, even if it’s not “completely.” If we’re not causing 100% of the change, but perhaps 50%, I’m not sure if that’s much of a distinction in terms of what policy to change. Do you agree?
[1] https://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus https://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus - “Climate-warming trends over the past century are extremely likely due to human activities.” It does not say or imply 100% due to those human activities. The ACS says, “The Earth’s climate is changing in response to increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and particulate matter in the atmosphere, largely as the result of human activities.” Even there, it’s not saying completely, although it’s saying largely, which definitely has a distinction.
- tdrdt 5y agoDo you agree? Absolutely! I think we are very 'unlucky' (stupid) that we are accelerating a natural climate change that causes global warming.
- peteradio 5y agoI think it's interesting to consider the scenario that humans are not causing the climate to change, but it is changing catastrophically nonetheless. How is our strategy different? Is it at all?
- Zababa 5y agoI think in that case we would focus on ways to cope with climate change. For example, air conditionning everywhere would make sense. What's difficult about the current crisis is that you can't use too much energy to fight it without making it worse.
- blackbrokkoli 5y agoPlease elaborate how air conditioning is going to prevent a destabilization of democracy around the world as millions of climate refugees run out of places to flee too?
- tdrdt 5y agoWell lets say natural global warming will cause a rise of 5°C in the next 50 years. Then we have 50 years to adapt. But when we accelerate this change we might need to adapt in 5 years. And we might even cause a rise of 6°C instead of 5. I believe those are the big problems we are facing.