So because long term there are forced we can't control does that mean pollution and over use of resources are not issues worth addressing?
Because the sun will explode in five million years there is no reason to ensure the planet is liveable for the next few hundred?
I can understand people finding Greta and similar figures very annoying but that doesn't mean the cause is invalid.
I don’t think people can really fathom how many variables there are in meteorology and climatology. It isn’t as simple as a one to one relationship, or a single thermodynamic equation. Stuff like teleconnections, ENSO, and solar activity all dictate the weather we experience on a long term basis. You can’t just point to a synoptic wave of showers moving off the coast of Africa, forming into a hurricane, and pinpoint one single variable and say “that did it!” These types of things form over thousands of miles and thousands of variables impacting it, from steering currents to sheer to water temperatures. It’s intellectual dishonesty to say that something like global warming caused by human activity created or exacerbated a hurricane when those things have existed for as long as the earth has carried water.
Even so, if human activity creates prolonged warming through CO2 emissions as they say, what can be done to solve the problem that will not hinder human activity in some capacity? Mind you, all of this is speculation since there are thousands or millions of atmospheric variables at play at any given time. What can be done to prevent the supposed man made warming and catastrophic impacts other than stifling economic growth or killing millions of people? Sure, we can utilize technological advancements to limit emissions, but eventually the human population will be so large that the whole planet may be covered in asphalt for the purposes of cities, thus creating a massive urban heat island effect. But that type of man made warming is OK, apparently. We have to tax carbon instead.
This planet doesn’t give a shit about you or anybody. It’s a huge fucking mass orbiting the sun within a solar system among millions of others. It will do its own thing regardless of what we do.
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Somehow Andy, the blase attitude you have in this post makes me think of citizens ancient Pompei. Mocking Mount Vesuvius as a dormant little bitch, just before it Barbecue chickened them all.
Is this similar to the sermons I will miss tomorrow? “You’re going to hell! God hates fags!”