onlooker wrote:Adam what part of AGW do u think is not scary ?
All of it is not scary. What kind of pissing our pants chicken shits have we humans become, to drool on ourselves and cower in fear of some temperature change here, or there?
If we as a species are offed because our climate changes, REGARDLESS OF WHY, then that is all she wrote. If the consensus was that the world was cooling, we would all still be here pissing our pants about it, the key isn't that humans are making it warm, or the sun, but that the world CHANGES. That is where the apparent fear resides, and then people are attaching all these cool doomer scenarios to it, wringing their hands incessantly because that is what doomers do, and when peak oil went away climate became the next best thing.
But isn't warming that is causing it, any more than it if it was cooling during the LIA or the 1970's, the problem is CHANGE. People hate it, businesses hate it, it implies instability, and we as a species HATE the idea of our old ways of doing things suddenly not working.
So...if you have no fear of change, you have no fear of climate CHANGE. if you can't imagine a world different than the one you are in today, you begin pissing your pants and praying and looking for someone to blame it on, and pretending you can fix it, or hoping you can, and if you can't then you begin screaming OH NOES!!! WEEZ ALL GONNA DIE!!! from your rooftop.
But nothing about CLIMATE change is scary. But to most folks, climate CHANGE is.
Plant Thu 27 Jul 2023 "Personally I think the IEA is exactly right when they predict peak oil in the 2020s, especially because it matches my own predictions."
Plant Wed 11 Apr 2007 "I think Deffeyes might have nailed it, and we are just past the overall peak in oil production. (Thanksgiving 2005)"