We Just Breached the 410 PPM Threshold for CO2

Re:We Just Breached the 410 PPM Threshold for CO2 by PakG1 on Sunday April 23, 2017 @12:56AM (#14176588)

Let's be honest. Climate science also needs to decide if it will be anthropocentric or not. As harsh as it sounds, if science is not supposed to be anthropocentric, then it doesn't matter to science if humanity becomes extinct or suffers. By definition. So if climate science is going to make human suffering or survival the key important issue, it should completely discard any language that it's about the earth and environment, and discard any pretense that it's not trying to be anthropocentric.

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Re:We Just Breached the 410 PPM Threshold for CO2 by snowwrestler on Sunday April 23, 2017 @01:17AM (#14176647)

Science is the process of learning how the universe works. It is not anthropocentric.

What we choose to do with that knowledge is anthropocentric because we are humans.

Science can tell us how fire works. We still have to decide what to do when our house catches on fire.

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Re:We Just Breached the 410 PPM Threshold for CO2 by PakG1 on Sunday April 23, 2017 @04:14AM (#14177118)

I'm being pedantic, but what to do with the knowledge seems to be a policy and political question, not a science question.

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Re:We Just Breached the 410 PPM Threshold for CO2 by snowwrestler on Monday April 24, 2017 @02:41AM (#14182356)

I agree.

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