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Almost definitionally so, because the world isn't going to be destroyed from global warming. Unfortunately the "scientists" we actually get aren't serious and m
by revelio 3y ago
Almost definitionally so, because the world isn't going to be destroyed from global warming. Unfortunately the "scientists" we actually get aren't serious and many of them say exactly that.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nasa-climate-scientist-says-were-toast/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nasa-climate-scientist-says-wer...
NASA Climate Scientist Says "We're Toast" (2008)
James Hansen told Congress on Monday that the world has long passed the "dangerous level" for greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and needs to get back to 1988 levels. He said Earth's atmosphere can only stay this loaded with man-made carbon dioxide for a couple more decades without changes such as mass extinction, ecosystem collapse and dramatic sea level rises.
"We see a tipping point occurring right before our eyes," Hansen told the AP before the luncheon. "The Arctic is the first tipping point and it's occurring exactly the way we said it would." Hansen, echoing work by other scientists, said that in five to 10 years, the Arctic will be free of sea ice in the summer.
Ten years later in 2018 there were no mass extinctions, ecosystem collapse and the Arctic had plenty of ice in summer. But the world is still going to be destroyed, this time within 5 years.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2018/01/15/carbon-pollution-has-shoved-the-climate-backward-at-least-12-million-years-harvard-scientist-says/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2018/01/15/carbon-p...
We Have Five Years To Save Ourselves From Climate Change, Harvard Scientist Says (2018)
The chance that there will be any permanent ice left in the Arctic after 2022 is essentially zero," said James Anderson[, a Harvard University professor of atmospheric chemistry]. "Can we lose 75-80 percent of permanent ice and recover? The answer is no."
The Arctic is still full of ice, there is currently more than there was at this time in 2012 and we are still not toast.