Outcast_Searcher wrote:Plantagenet wrote:And just look at climate change....my prediction that the Paris Accords wouldn't do a thing to stop CO2 emissions was 100% right, and the main global warming predictions---accelerating sea level rise, accelerating ice loss, heat waves, forest fires, drought---are all right on schedule as advertised.
Yes, the doomers got ONE right.
Thank you.
Outcast_Searcher wrote:Things are getting worse and expensive and inconvenient on the scale of decades. But that's not doom.
Actually, if things get bad enough and expensive enough it IS doom. And the assumption that the rate at which things are getting worse will always be the same gradual rate of change as it is now is just as open to question as the assumption that the rate things are getting worse will greatly accelerate. We don't precisely know the rate at which things will be changing in the future .....but we definitely know for many enviornmental and economic problems in the US and the world the current trend is not our friend.
Outcast_Searcher wrote:Also, we're talking long term doom, on the scale of centuries. Not the next week/ next month / next year predict and re-predict on failure nonsense the short term Cassandras love to engage in for many years on end.
Thats what called a "straw man" argument, i.e. when you create a silly opposing point of view and then decisively demolish your own straw man.
I don't think there are a whole of doomers on this site calling for doom to occur "next week" or "next month" or even "next year." So the whole question of doom happening "next week" really isn't even an issue worthy of rebuttal.
Cheers!