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Re:Reduction of Sulfur Emissions from Ships May Be Causing R... by concordDance on Saturday August 05, 2023 @04:49AM (#37010220)
That's an awful analogy. The science behind, say, sunshades is much stronger than the science behind climate change itself!

Eg. The odds of blocking out the sun not cooling the earth are much lower than the earth's temperature magically stabilising at current levels despite more co2 emissions.

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Re:Reduction of Sulfur Emissions from Ships May Be Causing R... by BasedAnon on Saturday August 05, 2023 @06:59AM (#37010843)
the hidden assumption is that you are dealing with a closed system, you are not. the scientific method has explanatory limits
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Re:Reduction of Sulfur Emissions from Ships May Be Causing R... by peteradio on Saturday August 05, 2023 @07:09AM (#37010889)
Sunshade is like thinking you fixed the bios security issue because your test case can no longer boot.
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Re:Reduction of Sulfur Emissions from Ships May Be Causing R... by concordDance on Saturday August 05, 2023 @08:32AM (#37011386)
Is the implication here that global warming isn't the actual problem we're trying to solve?
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Re:Reduction of Sulfur Emissions from Ships May Be Causing R... by peteradio on Saturday August 05, 2023 @08:36AM (#37011411)
No but you can appear to solve a problem with a myopic poorly formed test. Ala we got temps down but wheat yields are down but we won't blame the sunshade because that solved the problem.
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