Building future cities out of timber could save 100B tons of CO2 emissions

Re:Building future cities out of timber could save 100B tons... by lordswork on Friday September 09, 2022 @09:40AM (#32779096)

This reminds me a lot of Jordan Peterson's argument about climate change modeling:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jan/27/word-sal...

Anyway, I think the main disconnect is your misunderstanding about how climate modeling works. It's much more about the physics of GHGs in the atmosphere and how those impact the global temperature and the downstream effects on local climates and weather patterns. Human activity can be summarized as: humans emitted 51 billion tons of GHGs last year and that number continues to grow.

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Re:Building future cities out of timber could save 100B tons... by evr1isnxprt on Friday September 09, 2022 @01:54PM (#32782615)

I was never talking about climate models. I rebuked the idea survival is certain because it won’t be “too hot” for biology according to a climate model. We have no idea if we’ll remain rational actors until we experience and try to adapt to further climate change.

Constraining “survivability” to one metric is stupid.

Was tired and busy yesterday. Got rambly.

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Re:Building future cities out of timber could save 100B tons... by lordswork on Friday September 09, 2022 @02:34PM (#32783158)

I'm having a hard time following your statements. Can you say exactly what about current IPCC 2022 climate model findings you disagree with?

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