Oddbean new post about login | logout "You were already dying! People die all the time! Everyone BEFORE you died..." 🤣 Remove the judgement for decisions that we didn't make, and ignore the calls for individual austerity instead of regulatory action. It's pretty obvious that we've dumped a lot of CO2, and we should switch other sources of energy. Not less energy, but more, different energy. It doesn't have to be a big deal.
The concentration of co2 is minimal compared to other geological epochs, on the other hand co2 is the gas of life, the more co2 the more explosion of life. Don't believe the official story, study for yourself.
What if I study for myself and the findings don't support my preconceived notions.
First, study for yourself. I honestly don't care what happens after that - people need to use their grey matter more. @Cyph3rp9nk Do you really think the difference is unimportant though? My perspective has for a long time been that the planet will do just fine, but people might not. We got hit by an asteroid, and the Earth was fine... can't say the same for all those apex inhabitants.
Question the fossil record.
I saw that video, and it seems to cherry pick in pursuit of a religious goal. If something is in a (radiometricaly dated) 100 million year old box but your instruments say it's (carbon dated) 5,000 years old... something is wrong with your instruments, or the way that you're using them.
Only because people are stupid, lazy & think the world & most else is static, then try to treat it as such... CO2 din't make you build on the ancient sea floor & in other stupid places & it didn't make you create synthetic chemicals that never existed & are toxic to you, it also didn't make you pave over the most fertile areas or build weak structures. It didn't make you build the wrong thing in the wrong location for the wrong conditions...
No one is saying get rid of co2. And it’s not about amount but rate of change and the effect on other things, like temperature. Also things were much different during those eras, population for one. Why is it so hard to believe 8+ BILLION humans couldn’t affect the atmosphere and climate? I don’t have a problem with that, rather the ways government wants to deal with it, some of which are asinine.
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CO2 is great for plants. The plastic i find a much bigger concern.
Yeah, the planet and everything on it was static and perfect before humans came along and upset the equilibrium. Never mind though, we have politicians to tax us and save us from ourselves. CO2 is not a pollutant.
Seems like a weird take. Water is also not a "pollutant", but you aren't going to be happy if your house is flooded out. The real problem is, as you point out, how politicians leverage the situation to exert control.
No, the real problem is that there are still people who think that anthropogenic CO2 is causing some sort of climate crisis.
... oh yeah... everything seems totally normal these days... nothing to see here. I'm not going to argue the most extreme predictions, but we've dumped a phenomenal amount of CO2, and it is causing problems. Build nukes, build solar, figure out fusion... it's only hard because certain people benefit from it being hard. And given that, if there wasn't a "climate crisis", there would be some other crisis, because they want there to be at least a few. The problem is not the science, or the engineering.