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If CO2 from human activities is not causing our current climate change, we have a bigger problem since we then need to learn how to terra-form Earth and preserve a reasonably benign climate.
And I believe I've said as much in the past. :;): We're better off learning to mitigate and adapt to climate change rather than trying to stop the activity that we believe, without foundation, is the reason for that change.
I'd actually prefer if it were so simple as human CO2 emissions. Stop driving, problem solved. Send Hummers to Mars, boom, new Earth. Cool. Only it's not that simple in either case.
. . . the potential human die-offs will be substantial, and since India and China have nukes, that die-off will not be peaceful.
Indeed, and while it is prudent to find out what's really happening, what's really behind it and what if anything we can do about it; it also behooves us to prepare for all contingencies.
Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
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If CO2 from human activities is not causing our current climate change, we have a bigger problem since we then need to learn how to terra-form Earth and preserve a reasonably benign climate.
And I believe I've said as much in the past. :;): We're better off learning to mitigate and adapt to climate change rather than trying to stop the activity that we believe, without foundation, is the reason for that change.
I'd actually prefer if it were so simple as human CO2 emissions. Stop driving, problem solved. Send Hummers to Mars, boom, new Earth. Cool. Only it's not that simple in either case.
. . . the potential human die-offs will be substantial, and since India and China have nukes, that die-off will not be peaceful.
Indeed, and while it is prudent to find out what's really happening, what's really behind it and what if anything we can do about it; it also behooves us to prepare for all contingencies.
Yet to accomplish global climate management (regardless of casuation) we need something reasonably close to global consensus since a few billion tons of Chinese coal will dump more CO2 into the atmosphere than all of our SUVs.
Give someone a sufficient [b][i]why[/i][/b] and they can endure just about any [b][i]how[/i][/b]
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Yet to accomplish global climate management (regardless of casuation) we need something reasonably close to global consensus since a few billion tons of Chinese coal will dump more CO2 into the atmosphere than all of our SUVs.
Which may or may not be of any relevance in the grand scheme of things. It hasn't been established that CO2 is the primary cause of climate change and if it is in fact the cause, human activiy is not the only source nor even the largest.
I'm all for global consensus on the issue, I just want that consensus to be based on something real.
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