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> but if you look at the horrible effects climate change is already causing now What are those "horrible effects"? And how do you know the cure won't be worst
by paganel 4y ago
> but if you look at the horrible effects climate change is already causing now
What are those "horrible effects"? And how do you know the cure won't be worst than the supposed "horrible effects" it is meant to make disappear?
- cgeier 4y agoHave a look at this for some first ideas: https://www.noaa.gov/education/resource-collections/climate/climate-change-impacts https://www.noaa.gov/education/resource-collections/climate/... (think more draughts, much more intense wildfire seasons, intense rain events, nature's rhythm which is depending on temperature being disturbed). And I don't know if the "cure" will be worse, that's why for now, I'm only advocating for research into solar geoengineering. (But as the stratospheric release of sulphuric aerosols is also a natural occurring phenomena -- think volcanoes -- it is not something completely new we would be doing here.)
- paganel 4y agoYes, weather (and climate more generally) is not a static phenomenon, it never has been one. "More intense" compared to what? To the last 100 years? (meaning the period for which they have accurate meteorological data) Who says the last 100 years were the norm?
- cgeier 4y agoSorry, but I'm not willing to discuss if "the last 100 years were the norm" for climate-wise.
- ttyprintk 4y agoThank you for posting this. People should imagine wildfires where we’ve never experienced wildfires before, in times of water shortage.
- concordDance 4y agoIIRC the IPCC has released some estimates on how damaging the current trajectory is. It gets very overhyped by campaigners but global climate change is still going to be very expensive to the tune of tens of trillions of dollars and tens or hundreds of millions of premature deaths.