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> Unanimous consensus is an impossible goal. I know this. I was responding to the OPs appeal to authority. > Overwhelming agreement among experts is as gold
by timewizard 2y ago
> Unanimous consensus is an impossible goal.
I know this. I was responding to the OPs appeal to authority.
> Overwhelming agreement among experts is as gold as standards get.
What is this agreement? That it will eventually happen? That's not much of an agreement.
> I don't think anyone believes that climate change is a quick duration species-existential event.
Among those who "agree" is there a common timeframe that they estimate? Or do they all have varying opinions on this?
> That's definitely on the table.
We have nuclear weapons. In bunkers. Aimed at "targets." Everything is on the table. This isn't useful.
- quesera 2y agoI don't believe you would have any trouble answering these questions for yourself, and I do not have any confidence that you are engaging earnestly.
- freen 2y agoHmmm… what level of agreement would constitute sufficient cause for massive change? Eventually happen? What percentage of the Great Barrier Reef is gone? How about this every single climate change skeptic I have offered this wager to has declined to take me up: if in the next calendar year, the average global temperature for a given month is below the average global temperature of that month in the year you were born I will pay you 10 times the amount you are willing to wager. If the opposite is true, that the month this year is warmer than the same month in the year you were born you must pay me the amount you are willing to wager. Care to take that bet? Didn’t think so.