Re:Why Climate Alarmism Hurts Us All
by labster on Thursday December 05, 2019 @09:55AM
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This article manages to be mostly correct while at the same time being several shades of ok boomer. Sure, we're not all going to die. But on the other hand a major source of geopolitical instability comes from crop failure, and people still seem rather alarmed about that war in Syria and all the refugees.
The fact that we're in a global mass extinction event is somewhat troubling as well, even given that not all of the extinctions are caused by climate change.
It's not the one-meter sea level rise (optimistic case). It's the one meter plus more hurricanes with more storm surge. Yes, we can managed retreat. But people really don't want to do that, and then one day you have your sewer system under water.
That could have happened with a big enough hurricane anyway, but climate change just makes a lot of problems bigger. It's almost never a prime mover, it's a statistical problem, which in the short term makes the numbers a little worse for all of us. But enough of those numbers are changing that we should be alarmed. Life expectancy decreasing a year or two, as it is in the US right now, should be alarming, even if it is statistics, and climate is not really that different.
And if you're using "15 if statements", it doesn't usually mean you're wrong, it just means you need to refactor your code.
The fact that we're in a global mass extinction event is somewhat troubling as well, even given that not all of the extinctions are caused by climate change.
It's not the one-meter sea level rise (optimistic case). It's the one meter plus more hurricanes with more storm surge. Yes, we can managed retreat. But people really don't want to do that, and then one day you have your sewer system under water.
That could have happened with a big enough hurricane anyway, but climate change just makes a lot of problems bigger. It's almost never a prime mover, it's a statistical problem, which in the short term makes the numbers a little worse for all of us. But enough of those numbers are changing that we should be alarmed. Life expectancy decreasing a year or two, as it is in the US right now, should be alarming, even if it is statistics, and climate is not really that different.
And if you're using "15 if statements", it doesn't usually mean you're wrong, it just means you need to refactor your code.