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Or, we could just accept that 1) the earth goes through warming and cooling cycles and 2) some warming is not a bad thing. But, as jaggs, points out, follow th
by dadjoker 3y ago
Or, we could just accept that 1) the earth goes through warming and cooling cycles and 2) some warming is not a bad thing.
But, as jaggs, points out, follow the money - that's what this is all about.
- nvm0n2 3y ago[dead]
- hnhg 3y agoThe world is not ready for the kind of migration that a warming planet will drive. Think of the scale of social upheaval and conflict. Outside of the human cost, the economic repercussions will be immense. This is why most institutional investors are taking this very seriously. Follow the money indeed.
- itishappy 3y agoThat's already widely accepted. Also accepted is that at some point it becomes a bad thing. Boiling the oceans is a hyperbolic example, there's clearly an ideal temperature range. Not accepted is what that threshold is and where we're headed, because current trends don't look like any warming or cooling cycles in human history.
- archontes 3y agoIt's less hyperbolic than you might imagine. Water vapor is also a greenhouse gas. On a long timeline, I believe it is possible to follow a chain of CO2 increasing the temperature until we get uncontrolled CH4 emission that will then increase temperatures until we get into a positive feedback loop of increasing water vapor. I have read that this is likely how Venus became a hot dry ball.
- imtringued 3y agoThis isn't a cycle though.
- lm28469 3y ago"Some warming" and "some cooling" killed and displaced entire species over continents but besides that sure