World Now Likely to Hit Watershed 1.5 °C Rise in Next 5 Years

Re:World Now Likely to Hit Watershed 1.5 °C Rise in Next 5 Y... by coldtea on Thursday May 27, 2021 @03:37PM (#27307217)

>I'm not necessarily worried about climate change per se. It will result in hardship for many, for sure. Temperature changes will render some areas uninhabitable, it will cause mass migration, and probably destabilize the world politically. What am more worried about is the direct wholesale destruction of the biosphere.

How is the latter not just a byproduct of the former?

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Re:World Now Likely to Hit Watershed 1.5 °C Rise in Next 5 Y... by rland on Friday May 28, 2021 @02:08AM (#27312232)

If the world was just warming, it wouldn't be nearly so much of an issue, I don't think. We could just put a big mylar sheet and block part of the sun.

We could do that, I think, in about 20 years, if we really wanted to just get rid of this 1.5degC rise. But we can't, we have the ocean acidification, the desertification, the pollution, the acid rain, the plastic pollution. My point is that it's not really the temperature I'm worried about, it's the everything else.

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Re:World Now Likely to Hit Watershed 1.5 °C Rise in Next 5 Y... by monktastic1 on Thursday May 27, 2021 @03:51PM (#27307402)

Because we are ravaging the biosphere in countless other ways than just altering the temperature and climate. "Just" would imply that those are the only causes of biosphere destruction.

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