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Trying to reverse climate change won’t save us, scientists warn
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Tech companies think they can reverse climate change with fancy new tools to take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. But new research throws cold water on the idea that cooling the planet after it has already heated beyond a key turning point can avoid serious damage. Much of the toll climate change takes — from rising seas to lost homes — can’t be undone, recent research published in the journal Nature warns.
 
That makes it all the more urgent for governments and companies with climate goals to slash pollution from fossil fuels now, rather than offsetting or capturing their greenhouse gas emissions after the fact.

“Climate change comes with irreversible consequences.”
“Climate change comes with irreversible consequences. Every degree of warming, or every point of a degree of warming ... comes with irreversible consequences,” Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, lead author of the paper and head of the integrated climate impacts research group at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, said in a call with reporters before the paper was published.

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Re: Trying to reverse climate change won’t save us, scientists warn
« Reply #1 on: October 25, 2024, 06:31:16 am »
What eye rolling nonsense.

If the climate changes, the floral/faunal zones shift toward the poles or toward the equator, depending on whether the temperature goes up or down. Animals will migrate to the climate that suits them best over time, and the flora they depend on will go with them, in the form of seeds dropped with fertilizer, out the back. Predators will follow the herd, scavengers will follow the predators. Nature will do what nature has always done: adapt or die.

Now, for the unnatural (as in artificial), we have technology to compensate for even the seasonal variations in our environment. "climate controlled" is just one description. If we are not so foolish as to divest ourselves of the ability to adapt, we'll survive. The alternative is a less pleasant outcome for those who experience it.

Odd that so many who are spewing all this climate panic, are also (and have been since at least Malthus) desirous of eliminating their fellow humans in vast numbers. Maybe that's why they want to shut down reliable energy sources and bankrupt those left with wild-eyed not ready for prime time technologies that ultimately are designed to produce more profits and tragedy than results.

Of course the efforts to stop climate change will fail. Humans aren't responsible for it in the first place. We're just along for the ride. Now whether we run those rapids in a comfy pod, or clinging desperately to a log, well, that's our decision.
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Re: Trying to reverse climate change won’t save us, scientists warn
« Reply #2 on: October 25, 2024, 08:12:25 am »
We're all dead in the long run.

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Re: Trying to reverse climate change won’t save us, scientists warn
« Reply #3 on: October 25, 2024, 08:55:27 am »
Carbon capture ... trees and kelp forests ... not science experiments by bored tech billionaires.

"Climate Change" is also a climate shift that creates new opportunities as well as new perils.  This is why the focus needs to be on adaptation, not avoidance.

Wooly Mammoths did not adapt ... Digital Equipment Corporation did not adapt ... humans' adaptability is what has allowed us to progress and flourish as a species.

There are some changes beyond the understanding and abilities of man to control.

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