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>> No one knows the amount of thought I put into this same problem when building train tracks for my son but I had no idea how to solve the problem. My opinion
by phkahler 3y ago
>> No one knows the amount of thought I put into this same problem when building train tracks for my son but I had no idea how to solve the problem.
My opinion is that it will rise until we reach a tipping point where changes happen that will lead to the next glaciation. IMHO there will be at least a few years where odd things happen and then the modeling folks will say "oh crap this is going to happen". Stalling of the north Atlantic current is just one of these things that might happen.
In this light, I don't consider human-induced warming a fundamentally new problem, but an acceleration of a process that has been happening for several million years. Not that it makes too much difference - I don't want a glacier in my back yard any more than I want the other outcomes people talk about ;-)
- piva00 3y ago> but an acceleration of a process that has been happening for several million years That's exactly the main issue, isn't it? A change happening over millenia/millions of years gives enough time and slack for life to adapt, an accelerated change that happens in the course of centuries will just erase many species that can't reconfigure their metabolism through evolution. Of course that life finds a way and new species adapted to a new environment will become more prevalent over time, the issue is exactly that we accelerated it to a pace where most things aren't able to cope. We depend on those things as well to survive.
- sophacles 3y agoChanging the speed of a process can dramatically change the outcome. For instance, compare taking an elevator vs jumping out the window.
- dahston 3y agoIs this a bug or mistake,? Quoted content is from another thread I saw on here about tension in duplo train tracks