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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I figure the opposite is true.  People are pretty stupid and the “experts” don’t know what’s going to happen.   Remember wear a mask, no - don’t wear a mask, wear a cotton mask, wait - you need an N5, you won’t get Covid if you get vaccinated, wait - you will, keep getting boosters, I could go on…. I figure it’s the same when it comes to climate change.  I wouldn’t be surprised if we enter another ice age. Aren’t we supposed to be in a major recession right now?[/quote]

Anyone with even a reasonable college level grasp of science can read the science and surmise that the climate scientists, beginning publicly with James Hansen and privately with scientists at Exxon Mobil who did the research early and accurately predicted the devastating effects of polluting our environment with so much fossil fuel emissions, that climate is changing that it is driven by human activity and that it is escalating beyond our earlier modeling predictions and that is because of the interactions of various systems and cascading effects and tipping points that earlier modeling did not account for.

Anybody who thinks there is any serious debate about what is happening and will continue happening as the earth warms is just a fool.

And the comparison to the public health system trying to manage covid19 public health advice is actually very apt. While there were things we didn’t immediately know about the virus at the outset, most of the varying advice on masks and other precautions was much more about managing public expectations in the face of short supply of PPE and resistance to public health advice.

The human factor of emotion and irrationality cannot be removed from the equation, ever. It is this same human factor that will prevent us from getting anything done on climate change at a sufficiently wide scope in a sufficiently short amount of time to prevent our grandchildren from living in a hellscape. What is already baked in is bad enough to make their lives miserable and since we are certainly not going to stop emitting greenhouse gases tomorrow or next year or even in a decade, things are going to get exponentially worse.

I spent years mourning my childlessness, but I don’t anymore. I feel sorrow for the future your kids and their kids and their kids will endure. [/quote]

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