We’re watching in real time the things climate scientists told us was going to happen over 50 years ago:
West Antarctic ice sheet and CO2 greenhouse effect: a threat of disaster [1]
At this point people should expect that we’re going to pass 3C warming because people who could do something don’t give a shit and the ones that do care are impotent to change it
There’s literally nothing that will prove anthropogenic climate change as a catastrophic event to people who want to find evidence that everything is perfectly fine
so continue to do that and live in a fantasy world
By the way, it’s the oscillation extreme frequency that you should be more worried about in that graph instead of The totality numbers — so maybe go back to actually understanding the mechanism.
I'd flip that to you as well - there's literally nothing that doomers can hear that will change their mind that maybe we're not heading for a catastrophe. Of course, it's a real problem, but there are real solutions that are being worked on and rolled out.
- There's more ice in Antarctica now than there was 40 years ago [1]
- Antarctic ice has increased by 1% per decade since the satellite era (1979) [2]
- New record earliest winter in Antarctica was last year [3]
- Coldest 6 months in Antarctica ever recorded was 3 years ago [4]
- If you expand your reference window before 1979, Antarctic ice has been through far wilder swings [5]
But maybe I'm living in a fantasy world where hard data and scientific observations don't matter - please do explain the mechanism that I'm missing.
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 28.2 ms ] threadWest Antarctic ice sheet and CO2 greenhouse effect: a threat of disaster [1]
At this point people should expect that we’re going to pass 3C warming because people who could do something don’t give a shit and the ones that do care are impotent to change it
[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/271321a0
- Person looking forward to more ice shelves breaking off
so continue to do that and live in a fantasy world
By the way, it’s the oscillation extreme frequency that you should be more worried about in that graph instead of The totality numbers — so maybe go back to actually understanding the mechanism.
- There's more ice in Antarctica now than there was 40 years ago [1]
- Antarctic ice has increased by 1% per decade since the satellite era (1979) [2]
- New record earliest winter in Antarctica was last year [3]
- Coldest 6 months in Antarctica ever recorded was 3 years ago [4]
- If you expand your reference window before 1979, Antarctic ice has been through far wilder swings [5]
But maybe I'm living in a fantasy world where hard data and scientific observations don't matter - please do explain the mechanism that I'm missing.
[1] https://eos.org/science-updates/new-perspectives-on-the-enig... [2] https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/world-of-change/sea-ice-an... [3] https://www.weatherandradar.co.uk/weather-news/winter-is-jus... [4] https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/09/weather/weather-record-cold-a... [5] https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/201...