I love your propensity for assumptions. It just proves who you are.
If we've reached the tipping point, then none of this matters, we're finished. That's what reaching the tipping point means. But we've reached the next tipping point about every ten years since the 50s and haven't actually tipped. In fact, I believe next year we reach AOC's tipping point that she first predicted and we've passed every tipping point that Al Gore has ever put forth.
I don’t have to “assume” anything, you’ve made it clear that you don’t believe in the science and instead believe in political rhetoric, as shown by your statements, and bringing up AOC and Al Gore.
What I seem to believe, what the science actually shows, if you care to actually read, which you don't seem to be able to actually do, is that the climate is going to do what it's going to do, with or without us, and we do not and cannot dramatically alter it.
Nice, so not only have you made it clear that the only “science” that you are aware of is corporate funded junk science, you think others who are well versed in these matters can’t read or comprehend things.
Its a fact that humans have drastically altered the Earth in the last few hundred years, and that we’ve drastically increased the levels of atmospheric greenhouse gasses. These are irrefutable facts, the greenhouse effect is as real as gravity, when you cause a huge spike in greenhouse gasses in a short timeframe it causes warming of the Earth. We have countless examples of this all around the world, the oceans and our lands are getting hotter and hotter every year. You are simply wrong, mis-informed, and spreading false information. Your politics won’t save you or anyone else, denial won’t stop deadly heat waves, crop losses, deforestation, etc.
Not by mere gas emissions. What I believe, and the science shows, is that we're expending vast amounts of effort and money trying to get the climate to stop doing what it's going to inevitably do. We're coming out of an ice age and we've not reached global equilibrium yet as far as climate and atmospherics are concerned.
We’re barely doing anything at all, don’t mistake corporate greenwashing for governments actually doing what needs to be done. The oceans are becoming dead zones for sea life, right now, the ice caps are melting at a staggering rate, right now, animal life is going extinct, right now, deadly heat is happening, right now.
Climate change made heat waves in the U.S. Southwest, Europe and China hotter and more likely
www.scientificamerican.com
My political party? Sir you have no idea what my politics are and my politics only touch on climate when someone wants to take my money and pocket it while spouting some excuse about carbon footprints. The only one denying climate change is the one who thinks they can keep it from doing so. Which isn't me.
You’re mistaking greenwashing for real and meaningful action. Corporations, especially the oil companies, have spent a lot of money to make it seem like we can solve the problem if we all just recycle and buy Teslas. Of course there’s nothing wrong with individuals doing things like that, it’s just that a planet on the verge of runaway heating needs drastic, global efforts by governments and corporations. If there is time left, nothing you and me do at home is going to save us, we will need to drastically cut back emissions and sequester co2 and methane from the atmosphere.
The facts prove that we've only attributed between 5 and 7% of the current spike in greenhouse gases. The rest are from the planet itself warming and releasing its own sink as it does so. Both in the increase in plant and animal life and the warming of the water that causes it to release it's CO2 and dissolve limestone deposits which release more.
No.
Yes, human activity is putting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere faster than natural processes take it out. Rising carbon dioxide levels are strengthening Earth's greenhouse effect and causing global warming.
www.climate.gov
What you aren't taking into consideration is that the more plant and water sources there are, the more in-take and sequestering of carbon happens as well. Your article below even says that. It also doesn't mention anything about trees releasing CO2 when they die. As I said.
Plants and the ocean have a limit, and ocean water warms slowly and cools slowly, where are you getting these added plant and water sources from? The higher ocean temps are doing things like releasing methane from the sea floor which is a much more potent greenhouse gas than CO2.
The last decades have been filled with dire warning signs from forests. Global warming has contributed to thinning canopies in European forests and to sudden die-offs of aspen trees in Colorado, as well as insect outbreaks that are killing trees around the world. In many places, forests are not...
insideclimatenews.org
To your final comment on your other reply, isn't human extinction what you want? That's the only actual answer your side provides. Everything else is a stop-gap until we remove population.
I don’t know what wacky conspiracies you’re pushing here, but it isn’t “my side” that is lying about scientific facts which will eventually cause the human race to go extinct. My side, whatever that is, is the side that’s trying to save humanity. You haven’t seen anything yet, you think covid was the last pandemic? Tropical diseases are spreading northwards, and hotter temps make it easier for animal diseases like those seen in bats to spillover into humans. Between disease, and famine from crop failures, it’s bad times ahead and not only are we doing little to avert it, we have to fight through a tsunami of mis-information spread by the petro-chemical industry with their army of lobbyists, pr firms, politicians, and hoodwinked citizens that parrot their lies.
www.sciencealert.com
