Re:Carbon Removal Technologies
by xchaotic on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @04:20PM
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Like any sane person, I totally accept the global warming is real and most likely mostly man made. But rather than fighting that change which is already underway, can we not adapt to the higher temperatures and entropy? I appreciate that there's lots of side effects that we see as disastrous, but generally warmer = better for life in many parts of the earth.
Most likely the positive outcomes of global warming do not outweight the negatives, but it looks like relatively very little attention is paid to what is most natural course of action - adaptation.
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We can't adapt to an ecological collapse. It's not the few degrees of extra warmth we worry about, it's how major extinction events will threaten nearly everything.
I think one of the bigger problems of global warming will be mass migrations and less arable land and probably a ton of other big problems.
How would you deal with those problems? Do you have any ideas on that (serious question)? And what do you think the biggest problems would be and how would we adapt to those?
We will have to adapt, even if we mobilize to remake the entire energy economy. It is too late to prevent a lot of warming from occurring.
If we do nothing however, we are headed for things we cannot adapt to. The worst case is not rising seas and famine, the worst case is the Permian-Triassic Extinction.
Re:Carbon Removal Technologies
by weliveindetail on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @07:50PM
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The problem with +2° is, that we will be at +5° soon after. Phase III is an irreversible chain reaction.