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.
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-...