Forest Service officials close all California national forests

Re:Forest Service officials close all California national fo... by dragonwriter on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @01:38AM (#28364323)

> Where I sit, there was ice a mile thick 15,000 years ago. Besides that, we have just come out of the so-called Little Ice Age, at the height of which people walked from Manhattan to Staten Island on the ice in New York Harbor.

At the last glacial maximum, global temperature was about 7°C cooler than today; the “Little Ice Age” wasn't a particular period of global cooling, but a set of unsynchronized localized phenomenon featuring typical less than 1°C of large-area cooling.

> 1.5 C per century is inconsequential.

1.5°C/century of global change is gigantic compared to either of the phenomena you raise to try to minimize it.

> Not only that, but I predict that humans will stop emitting CO2 in a few decades, in any case.

Based on...what?

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Re:Forest Service officials close all California national fo... by wrycoder on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @10:01PM (#28452133)

Based on the observed fact that as societies become more sophisticated, they shift away from coal and oil to renewables and nuclear.

What will happen is not dependent on the US or the EU. It depends entirely on India and China.

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