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Interesting how easy it is to mitigate 5C - and yet we think the world is going to end if temps increase another 2C - when we are basically in an Ice Age and th
by onlyrealcuzzo 3y ago
Interesting how easy it is to mitigate 5C - and yet we think the world is going to end if temps increase another 2C - when we are basically in an Ice Age and the Earth has only been cooler for brief periods of time in the last 500M years: https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/whats-hottest-earths-ever-been https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/whats-hotte...
Luckily, fossil fuels are going to get phazed out massively over the next 50 years strictly due to economics.
- emj 3y agoYou are mistaking global for local, and 50 years is too late. I am positive I think some of us will survive.
- Jabbles 3y agoDid you read the link you posted? Specifically the update at the top?
- Aloisius 3y agoEasy to mitigate it in urban environments which are heat islands due to the low albedo of man-made surfaces. 99% of the earth, however, is not paved. Reducing heat on a global scale is a wee bit more difficult.
- macromagnon 3y agoThe increase in temperature is just one of the issues. It has probably been mainly publicized as it's an easy "key performance indicator" to get the point across/that can be succinctly referred to. Sea level rise, ocean acidification, global weather pattern shifts, etc. are all also major problems.