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Does the Earth's having supported life for millions of years support the idea that our CO2 emissions are not a problem? I want to see all angles here, so is th
by sopooneo 14y ago
Does the Earth's having supported life for millions of years support the idea that our CO2 emissions are not a problem?
I want to see all angles here, so is there something I'm missing? Are there cases where volcanoes were spewing out CO2 at a similar rate and ocean levels did not rise by amounts that would have been bad for humans, or plant and animal species did not go extinct in a way that would have been bad for humans?
- obviouslygreen 14y agoWhile there may be other angles, I believe what you're replying to here is an invalid assumption regarding what "absorb shocks" and "stable system" mean and imply. The GP seems to believe that the Earth's climate will simply revert to whatever was convenient for life while failing to understand that there's no reason to assume disruptive large-scale chemical changes in the environment can't or won't result in a new equilibrium that's inhospitable to life as it evolved for conditions present before such an event or series of events.