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You do realise the earth is at the very end of an interglacial period? The purpose of "stopping global warming" is not to stop the earth warming. Stopping warmi
by candiodari 4y ago
You do realise the earth is at the very end of an interglacial period? The purpose of "stopping global warming" is not to stop the earth warming. Stopping warming would be as bad as global warming. Reversing warming would be much worse. We want to slow it, not stop it.
Global warming is the (as usual incredibly well-chosen) name for the rate of increase in temperature going up way too fast. The purpose is to stretch the next 100 years of warming at the current rates to call it 2000 years of warming. To make it take longer. Not to stop it, and not to reverse it. The ideal global warming changes will keep warming the planet, just much slower than is currently happening.
The problem is I'm going to get downvoted for this, as there is an anti-global-warming "theory" that says we're at the start of the next ice age. And like all good lies, it's essentially true. In the next few thousand years an ice age should start. The name global warming, however, means that if possible it'd be nice if all the remaining progress to the next ice age didn't happen in ~200 years.