Gestalt said...
if we stop emissions now we will stop the temperature increase at around 1.5-2 deg which is substantially better than the predicted 4+ deg if we do nothing.
we are already at .9 deg and are seeing the signs of that clearly with the global weather and plant and animal species on the move with some facing extinction.
above what ?
what we measured last week ?
What we averaged over the last 100 years ?
the last 200 years ?
the last 1000 years ?
the last 50,000 years ?
the last 5 million years ?
Only thing for sure is earth's climate has never been stable
When it has been generally warmer, it has been generally wetter and generally more biodiverse
When it has generally been colder, it has generally been drier and less biodiverse.
99.9% of all species that have ever evolved have become extinct. Mass extinction has occured before and life survived.
To convince me man made climate change is going to destroy all life on earth you need to talk about the rate of change, not the change. Maybe the rate of change will cause this, but nobody seems to be arguing that. I don't think 2 deg in 1,000 years has never occured before.
To convince me that me pumping concentrated waste into the environment in any form is a bad thing you need to do nothing.
To convince me that a tax on carbon with the money raised paid back to those affected (less admin costs) will save the planet you need to remove my brain.
I am getting pretty convinced though that I am sounding like Petermac33 here and that is very,very worrying - more worrying than climate change. Some form of sanity change must be occuring.
