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Not many are gonna like this, but if we had to choose, global warming is a “better” scenario than global cooling. No one likes a bad ice age.
by spacephysics 4y ago
Not many are gonna like this, but if we had to choose, global warming is a “better” scenario than global cooling. No one likes a bad ice age.
- notfromhere 4y agoThat really wasn't the alternative.
- Supermancho 4y ago> That really wasn't the alternative. The Earth's average temperature has trended up and down for millions of years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_age https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_age with a trend downward. So I can concede that there are 2 prevailing trends possible. I happen to think that Global Cooling is preferable.
- stavros 4y agoThese prevailing trends happen over hundreds of thousands of years. Over two or three centuries, the most prevailing trend so far has been "basically exactly the same as before".
- throwanem 4y agoI suspect what not many like, myself included, is the unsupported assertion that if not for global warming we'd be entering an ice age.
- 411111111111111 4y agoWhy do you consider it unsupported? The temperature going a little up and down over the decades has been used as an argument even by the climate change deniers, i don't think anyone would contest that...? And it was just starting to go down when the industrialization started, which reversed the the direction within 50 yrs.
- throwanem 4y agoI consider the assertion unsupported because it was asserted without support, as if no more controversial than to say that water's wet. Generally, when advancing a heterodox claim, one does well to source it so that interlocutors and audience members can evaluate it on some more substantial basis than whether they feel like taking a stranger's word for it, which around here people mostly (and correctly!) won't.