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Nature is already doing this experiment, right now, and has been for billions of years. This couldn't cause problems even if we wanted it to.

• vlovich123 4y ago
  That feels like fatally flawed reasoning. Nature took billions of years to sequester carbon. It’s taken a few hundred to release an amount that’s permanently altered the climate of the Earth. There’s lots of problems humans can create that “nature” couldn’t precisely because we drastically compress time scales that make adaptation exceedingly difficult.
  • good_boy 4y ago
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    • 9dev 4y ago
      Have you just let ChatGPT expand on GPs post..? Your reply contains exactly the same content as theirs, but more wordy…
      • sandgiant 4y ago
        I asked ChatGPT what it would respond and it produces something very similar, down to the same sentences, to the comment above. So this definitely looks like a ChatGPT response.
        • good_boy 4y ago
          it was, sorry. can't delete it.
          • smcl 4y ago
            Why did you use Chat GPT?
  • ajani 4y ago
    But it took no time for the universe to come into existence. In a bang and flash.
    • vlovich123 4y ago
      Since time stretches out to infinity as you approach a singularity, if we assume all matter started out compressed at the Big Bang, then actually it took forever amount of time for the universe to come into existence. I’m not a physicist though so I may have gotten the relativity aspect wrong.
      • ajani 4y ago
        Assuming the start was a singularity is an interesting idea. Unlikely though. Light speed is constant in all frames of ref, even in singularities. So if a bang was accompanied with a flash then the flash must preexist at a constant speed. Which makes no sense since we are saying light came into existence along with everything else at the ‘start’. The ‘start’ must have a fundamentally different nature, where even time came into existence. You see?
  • nunobrito 4y ago
    Climate has been changing since the planet exists and you benefit from everything that a modern society has to offer. Better if you become the example of change in society and go live inside a cave to reduce your own carbon footprint.
    • circuit10 4y ago
      https://xkcd.com/1732/ https://xkcd.com/1732/
      • nunobrito 4y ago
        Instead of comics, better understand that climate has always changed and will continue to change. Not that long ago that parts of the globe were for centuries warmer up to 5 degree celsius and then fallen into a mini ice-age: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_Warm_Period https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_Warm_Period Reality is quite cold, literally.
        • circuit10 4y ago
          Did you even look at what I posted? It addresses what you're saying, and it shows the Medieval Warm Period on the graph. In fact, even the article you posted has a similar graph as the first image on the page.
        • lm28469 4y ago
          The medieval warm period and following "little ice age" are not even visible on the xkcd graph, that's how small they are compared to massive recent changes. You're looking at micro trend with a magnifying glass and macro trend with a distorting lens if you think the medieval events are anywhere close to what's happening. No recorded climate change happened as fast as the current one, there have been wilder changes but they happened over centuries, not decades Saying climate always changed so it's ok is like saying you'll die eventually so it's ok if you die tomorrow > better understand that climate has always changed and will continue to change. I think virtually no one ever argued against that: https://skepticalscience.com/print.php?r=48 https://skepticalscience.com/print.php?r=48