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New Yorker magazine climate change article

Unread postby onlooker » Fri 01 Sep 2017, 16:40:50

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/20 ... tated.html
In a short span of time has become the most widely read article ever of this magazine. Titled 'The Uninhabitable Earth" presuming this eventuality because of climate change
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Re: New Yorker magazine climate change article

Unread postby onlooker » Fri 01 Sep 2017, 18:24:22

They may be irreconcilable P, if runaway warming does not fully play out. The fast crash would crash civilization and presumably thus CO2 emissions saving us from the worse of climate change

As bad as world wide collapse would be, I don"t think it's an extinction level event. Climate change however could be
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Re: New Yorker magazine climate change article

Unread postby Outcast_Searcher » Sat 02 Sep 2017, 20:16:12

pstarr wrote:Runaway industrial collapse is more likely than runaway global warming.

Only inside the fast crash doomer echo chamber.
Given the track record of the perma-doomer blogs, I wouldn't bet a fast crash doomer's money on their predictions.
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Re: New Yorker magazine climate change article

Unread postby dissident » Sat 02 Sep 2017, 21:12:12

Some countries are not in imminent danger of running out of oil and gas:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazhenov_Formation

Don't expect synchronous industrial collapse. When Uncle Scam goes down he will go down only with his minions.

Climate change is what is going to do in humanity. Food production is going to collapse globally in any metric that matters.
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Re: New Yorker magazine climate change article

Unread postby Keith_McClary » Sun 03 Sep 2017, 01:36:03

pstarr wrote:Strangely no climate model even considers the negative feedback already observed as CO2 is uptaken (uptook ? lol ) and converted to woody material.
Yes they do.
https://theconversation.com/plants-abso ... -but-32945
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