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Re:Rapid Green Energy Transition Will Likely Result in Trill... by neffy on Saturday September 17, 2022 @06:21PM (#32882180)
It's accurate but not complete. The long term (600k year) climatic history of this planet is sobering, and if only climate change was just our fault. Believe me, there is nothing humanity has so far achieved that comes close to matching what nature does to this planet on a pretty regular schedule. We don't know nearly enough about this by the way, and we especially don't know enough about conditions about the end of the last inter-glacial. For the last 20 odd years we can't even discuss it rationally, because to bring up the non-anthromorphic aspects just gets some innocent scientist labelled a denier.

That volcano that went off in the pacific this January appears to have increased the amount of water vapour in the entire atmosphere by 10%. Sit back and contemplate that for a moment, because it is pretty awesome, and also the satellite pictures were quite something, and then take another look at what's happened in Pakistan and Italy. All our fault? We can wish.

There is so much more to this than shifting away from fossil fuels - that's the easy one, get rid of your car, and get a bicycle.

(Added) I have to feel the mindless downvoting on this and similar comments is just proving my point. Link for the volcano, impacts still being assessed...

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/03/1115378385/tonga-volcano-stra...

https://egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/2022/egusphere-20...

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Re:Rapid Green Energy Transition Will Likely Result in Trill... by ncmncm on Saturday September 17, 2022 @08:05PM (#32882941)
Correct insofar as we are not completely sure that the ongoing precipitous rise won't tip us over an edge into an ice age.
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Re:Rapid Green Energy Transition Will Likely Result in Trill... by neffy on Sunday September 18, 2022 @05:24AM (#32885880)
Yes, that's the joker in the pack. Did you see the papers about the evidence for the ice pack on Greenland having completely melted before? It left me wondering about how much we can trust the ice core readings from there.
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Re:Rapid Green Energy Transition Will Likely Result in Trill... by ncmncm on Sunday September 18, 2022 @05:32AM (#32885924)
Obviously it has all melted off before. Many, many times.

That does not mean anything is wrong with the current ice cores. It only means they go back only as far as they go, and there may be gaps where partial melting happened before accumulation resumed.

Tipping over into a new ice age would not be a better outcome than where we seem headed without that.

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Re:Rapid Green Energy Transition Will Likely Result in Trill... by neffy on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @08:20AM (#32910674)
Agreed... far worse in fact.

the issue in particular with the ice core melting is how much we can trust the peak readings for things like methane and co2.... what we consistently see in the cores is that these things increase steadily until they suddenly drop. If we are missing the top part of that information, it could be quite important.

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