I unironically believed in "climate change" as a kid because of shitty news articles like this. Glad I gained some common sense, which is apparently not so common nowadays
The scientific explanations make sense. Greenhouse gasses and what not, that's how Venus is the way it is and that's how we could theoretically terraform planets.
However, we also have the full ecosystem. We have plants and the like that consume the carbon and other shit to mitigate/cancel out the "man made climate change"
If climate change is such a huge issue, why aren't they pushing people into the sciences and working on new technologies to fix it?
Going the electric route, which could help what they see as problems, is awesome for those of us going off-grid and/or nomad. "Free" power and efficiency is ever growing.
There are biological and chemical things that don't seem to be a concern but what's stopping these folks from getting degrees in those sciences to help them develop solutions?
It was always about communism. Capitalism fixes problems. Communism tells people the government will solve problems at the expense of freedoms.
There is also the fact that pollution produces aerosols that can rise in the atmosphere and increase albedo (in a localized manner or more general manner depending on how high up and how widespread these particles end up being) thus countering in part the greenhouse effect.
The consensus is that the average earth temperature IS increasing, I have data from averages of the 1860s in my town and the current average temperatures, the mean temperature in summer has risen roughly 0.5 °C, it's not as desperate as some might want you to believe, but the rise is real. Although, at this point it's not 100% clear if the anthropic input constitutes the major contributor to global warming or if it is a significant but not overwhelming contribution, in the latter case we wouldn't be able to change anything even if we adopted AOC's green new deal tomorrow.
I have a degree in environmental chemistry so I know what I am talking about btw.
I unironically believed in "climate change" as a kid because of shitty news articles like this. Glad I gained some common sense, which is apparently not so common nowadays
The scientific explanations make sense. Greenhouse gasses and what not, that's how Venus is the way it is and that's how we could theoretically terraform planets.
However, we also have the full ecosystem. We have plants and the like that consume the carbon and other shit to mitigate/cancel out the "man made climate change"
If climate change is such a huge issue, why aren't they pushing people into the sciences and working on new technologies to fix it?
Going the electric route, which could help what they see as problems, is awesome for those of us going off-grid and/or nomad. "Free" power and efficiency is ever growing.
There are biological and chemical things that don't seem to be a concern but what's stopping these folks from getting degrees in those sciences to help them develop solutions?
It was always about communism. Capitalism fixes problems. Communism tells people the government will solve problems at the expense of freedoms.
There is also the fact that pollution produces aerosols that can rise in the atmosphere and increase albedo (in a localized manner or more general manner depending on how high up and how widespread these particles end up being) thus countering in part the greenhouse effect.
The consensus is that the average earth temperature IS increasing, I have data from averages of the 1860s in my town and the current average temperatures, the mean temperature in summer has risen roughly 0.5 °C, it's not as desperate as some might want you to believe, but the rise is real. Although, at this point it's not 100% clear if the anthropic input constitutes the major contributor to global warming or if it is a significant but not overwhelming contribution, in the latter case we wouldn't be able to change anything even if we adopted AOC's green new deal tomorrow.
I have a degree in environmental chemistry so I know what I am talking about btw.
The global temperature tends to rise when the earth is coming out of an ice age. It’s science.
There isn’t a problem. THAT is the problem!