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Originally Posted by PokerPlayingGamble
meh, I don't think 1 or 2 degree rise in global temperatures is going to be a big deal. first of all, according to NASA temperature data, warming has been concentrated in northern regions, which actually stand to benefit from the warming as permafrost thaws and land becomes arable and the regions more habitable. this is because water vapor is a much more potent greenhouse gas than co2 so a lot of hotter and more humid areas are already maxed out on global warming, whereas the colder, more arid regions not so much. anyway, regions in Canada experience swings in temperature of 60+ degrees centigrade on an annual basis, so why exactly is a 1 or 2-degree increase supposed to be deadly? there is no way of determining what the optimal level of climate should be, but the Earth is presently in an ice age so a few degrees increase is probably not going to be the end of the world and may ultimately be beneficial.
Have been laughing at the stupidity of this post all day.
Thanks again.
The earth storing enough extra energy to raise aggregate global temperatures by 2C is a massive deal, this does not mean all areas just get 2C warmer, it means there is that much extra energy in the climate system, meaning climate changes massively in response to this extra energy, and where ever the climate systems dumps this energy at any given time is going to experience much bigger swings in temperature than 2C and of course all sorts of extreme weather events. You even note how warming is not evenly distributed, but cant follow through with the logical extension of that fact. You do realise it needs a **** ton of energy to raise the entire aggregate global temperature by 2C?
Bolded is one of the biggest fails of intuitive deductive reasoning I have ever seen. You do realise water vapor and carbon can exist in the atmosphere at the same time? So adding more carbon just means a bigger cumulative effect and of course adding is the key word.
Last edited by O.A.F.K.1.1; 07-18-2021 at 07:16 PM.