to discuss news and stuff of the old world dying
But the economy is doing good and those little arrows are pointing up and numbers are going up instead of down ..... that means it's good.
You know we killed the world buuuuuuuuuut for a very short time we made our investors a looooooooot of money!
And if it doesn't look good just incite war's all over the world
Soooo... We're fucked.
Kind of the opposite, sadly.
The models were deliberately not measuring/predicting ALL the factors they knew were involved. Back in 1998 I asked a Scripps Institute of Oceanography speaker why the models were ignoring the methane/permafrost feedback loop and was told "we decided to focus on other things"... so yeah, inaccurate models give inaccurate predictions. Get used to hearing "it is all happening faster than we expected" from now until we are incinerated.
Yeah...
We're fucked...
On the bright side, billionaires have never made so much money as they do now.
On an annual basis, fossil fuel burning causes way more cooling than heating.
nope nope nope nope
Exactly. No one wants to read that. It's counter-intuitive, and it goes against the prevailing narrative. But the narrative that the media repeats is based on GWP100 accounting, even though we don't have 100 years to address climate change. As Hansen and colleagues pointed out, people are not well-informed, and that's true of the people deciding climate policy as well. Ignorance and denial of the facts will continue to make the situation ever more dire.
the cooling is short term. the heating effects will last centuries.
I think you're over invested on this narrative. I have more confidence in NOAA, NASA etc.
the cooling is short term.
Yes. Exactly. The aerosols have a cooling effect that is fast-acting but short-lasting. Carbon dioxide has a warming effect that is slow-acting but long-lasting. In the long term, the warming effect prevails, but on an annual basis, the cooling effect dominates. We no longer have centuries to address climate change, so considering what the effect of any mitigation strategy will be in the short term is crucial.