Re:Detection of novel coronaviruses in bats in Myanmar
by triceratops on Monday April 13, 2020 @03:19AM
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> Humans didn’t invent climate change.
But they are currently causing it.
> This arrogance that climate change hasn’t always happened is just nonsense.
That's a strawman. No one's saying that. It just happens that this time, we're mostly responsible. Not geological processes[1], or astronomical cycles[2], or the action of algae[3]. Btw, if algae can change the composition of the atmosphere, we certainly are capable.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles
2. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/origin-of-oxygen-...
Are you saying climate changes haven’t led to changes in the past? That’s ridiculous. The fossil record is full of changes due to the climate changing.
Humans didn’t invent climate change. This arrogance that climate change hasn’t always happened is just nonsense. It’s like suggesting plate tectonics didn’t start until humans came around. Trying to make some implicit connection between bat Coronaviruses and too much CO2 is getting into religious territory.
There are some religious people that blame the Coronavirus pandemic on “God’s will” and now we are hearing climate change alarmists using similar language to explain literally everything bad that happens.