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Anonymous at Sat, 27 Jul 2024 03:21:08 UTC No. 16298349
What's so bad about climate change anyway? Turning the world into a greenhouse means making it a greener place. The CO2 we release will both give plants more air to breathe and a better temperature to live in.
It is proven that our current geological period (the Quaternary) is an Ice Age. If anything, warming the planet would turn it back to normal, when the planet had huge forests and animals like in the Mesozoic.
Also, on a geological time frame, we should give ALL the carbon back to the biosphere before it is forever absorbed into the surrounding rocks or subducted to the mantle, or else the planet could eventually run out of biological materials for life. We will probably achieve fusion before the lack of oil becomes a problem anyway.
Either way, the greenhouse effect will not be very dramatic, because most of the CO2 will be quickly absorbed by the biomass in the planet. Proof of that is that originally the atmosphere had only volcanic gases and zero oxygen, and today it has 20% O2 and 0.04% CO2. Almost all of the carbon was absorbed by photosynthesizing organisms. The same thing is happening RIGHT NOW due to human emissions, but the scientists are trying to paint it as a bad thing (https://www.nature.com/articles/s4
Anonymous at Sat, 27 Jul 2024 04:08:22 UTC No. 16298390
>>16298349
>What's so bad about climate change anyway?
In the very long run, it doesn't matter. The planet keeps going, life keeps going. Millions of years from now it'll be a bleep.
But in the short term, for us it's loss of natural wealth: mostly through habitat perturbation/elimination and the mass extinction that accompanies it. Many tree species cannot migrate fast enough and so they will perish, for example. The species that depend on those specific plants will too be gone.
Mass coral bleaching is also devastating.
Furthermore, we're not sure if our crops can keep up with what's coming, so the risk of widespread food shortages is real. Some poor countries are already suffering, they've been priced out of certain food markets in some recent years.
And, the migrations. The estimates are truly staggering, how many people might be affected and attempt to move someplace else. I've seen numbers from 500 million to over one billion people migrating worldwide.
Anonymous at Sat, 27 Jul 2024 05:00:05 UTC No. 16298470
>>16298349
>or else the planet could eventually run out of biological materials for life.
Oh, don't stress over than anon, the day the Sun turns into a red giant will arrive...
Anonymous at Sat, 27 Jul 2024 14:28:57 UTC No. 16298945
>>16298349
>The same thing is happening RIGHT NOW due to human emissions, but the scientists are trying to paint it as a bad thing
It's not CO2 it's farms and green walls.
https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-fa
Rapid climate change is a bad thing because it causes mass extinctions and will make civilization difficult or impossible to maintain.