Doly wrote:Nice explanation Doly, but you left out the politics.
I left out the politics because climate change is about physics, and physics doesn't give a damn about politics.
Quite true, but as far as action goes, politics is in the drivers seat so any discussion of mitigation etc is pointless unless that aspect is factored in. I still have lots of podcast from the 00's where the 'solutions' were thrashed out but it was all a waste of time since the world wasn't interested in solutions, just bigger SUV's and bigger houses. It's not just the leaders, the people themselves refuse to give up their lifestyles.
As a fine example of what happens when you start believing your politicians too hard, look at Ukrainians right now. They obviously believed too hard in the wrong things: that either their country wasn't going to get invaded, or that if it did get invaded, it was going to get lots of help fast.
Idiots! What else can you say. Did they learn nothing from Hitlers' European tour? How the west let him consume half of the eastern nations without lifting a finger? The west cares little for central Europe, sure they'd like it under their control, but they know their limitations. The supply lines are simply too long and Russia too close to risk any sort of intervention.
When you make a mistake about physics, physics can't change its mind. As I see it... Disbelief in physics equals TEOTWAKI in my book, especially if the people that disbelieve physics publicly hold any significant amount of power.
I do appreciate that I have a minority view and lots of people think that you can have a party making these claims for decades and it isn't a reason to freak out and go prepper. Their choice. Time will tell who is right.
I agree, we 'will' have TEOTWAWKI, nothing surer actually. The science on CO2 was tested and proven 100 years ago and ice cores attest to the fact that the planet turns into an oven when they get to the levels we have now reached. Thank God we'll be dead probably before the worst of it sets in, there is still a lot of ice to soak up the heat, just as the oceans have been sucking up the heat and the co2 thus far. Insane weather is the short-term major risk in my opinion. Super Hurricanes, biblical floods, out of control wildfire seasons. But we are already seeing this aren't we, and the captain of the Titanic is still asleep in his bed.
Location Location Location is the key. Far from the coast, from forests, from rivers.