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It's denialism. It's just a form of denialism called Luke warm climate denial. Current climate change is slow by human experience, but rapid by geologic terms.
by breakyerself 2y ago
It's denialism. It's just a form of denialism called Luke warm climate denial.
Current climate change is slow by human experience, but rapid by geologic terms. There is almost no precedent in the geological record for climate change happening at the current rate outside of mass extinction events.
When you are dealing with risk management for something that can affect billions of lives and manny trillions of dollars in assets the tolerance for risk must be very low. Policy makers are currently exposing us to far too much risk for very little upside. There has been a lot of collaboration between climate scientists and economists to map this out the last decade or so.
Really what is happening now is an unplanned, out of control experiment with the thermal and chemical properties of our atmosphere and oceans. The burden of proof lies with those who wish to continue the mad scientist experiment that is greenhouse gas emissions to prove it's safe. Not on the rest of us to prove it's unsafe. Despite the fact that it has been pretty well proven to be unsafe.