The oceans have broken temperature records every day over the past year

Re:The oceans have broken temperature records every day over... by piva00 on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @07:42AM (#40296866)

None of those are close to the potential destructive power that a truly global catastrophe like climate change is. Pol Pot? Soviets? WW1 and WW2? Famines in China? You are comparing political events against the laws of thermodynamics in a global scale. Even the Spanish flu has an understandable time period tipping point to be stopped due to how viruses and adaptations to it occurs.

I don't think you comprehend the level and degree of difference between all of those events against the effects where laws of physics dictating how a planetary-level of change in energy retained will mess up with every single thing we as humanity need to survive on this Earth.

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Re:The oceans have broken temperature records every day over... by EnigmaFlare on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @05:11PM (#40302752)

You haven't quantified that comparison so you really don't have a clue. Just saying physics is more powerful than politics doesn't mean the outcome will be worse.

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Re:The oceans have broken temperature records every day over... by piva00 on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @05:43PM (#40302995)

Do I really need to get you figures for how many gigajoules are required to heat up the whole world by 3-4C on average, studies on the effects of that energy added to the atmosphere and oceans, and the second and third order effects on the biosphere or are you smart enough to figure that one out?

I assume folks on HN are smart enough to understand the basic premise of what I said, if needed I can track the data for you but you could probably do the same instead of a stupid rebuttal dressed as snarkiness.

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Re:The oceans have broken temperature records every day over... by EnigmaFlare on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @07:04PM (#40373431)

Of course that part's simple. What's not is "a planetary-level of change in energy retained will mess up with every single thing we as humanity need to survive on this Earth". Yes, you need to specify what that means because it's just emotional language that could mean anything.

You probably don't know. I've never found anyone who knows what that means, or can even provide even the crudest estimate of the human impact of climate change such as number of deaths, financial cost, etc. that comes close to 20th century disasters.

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