-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 08/17/2016 09:46 PM, Mirimir wrote:
> Arguing about anthropogenic climate forcing is just fucking > useless. The latency is too great, and there are too many positive > feedbacks. By the time that impacts are undeniable enough to > motivate substantial reductions in CO2 emissions, it will be too > late. About the time follow up studies measured and confirmed annual summer methane discharges from thawed out former Arctic permafrost (ancient peat bogs, tidal flats etc.), climatologists stopped talking about "stopping" much less reversing global warming. So far I am not aware of any positive public statements from competent actors to the effect that global warming is now self-driving regardless of human activity. I suspect there is a quiet consensus that telling this particular truth would do more harm that good: The human contribution to global warming does continue to accelerate the process and enlarge its "final" impact, so statements that could be taken as excuses to just give up on reducing greenhouse gas emissions would be counter-productive. With or without global warming, the exponential growth of human population and the industrial processes that drive this growth had to end sometime. That time is "real soon now." :o/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJXtxEWAAoJEECU6c5XzmuqmYIIAMRJjfToZ77CzSYWbvXHheW3 0M9VlWDusftBIwvX8epEs4dnPVaqG/54CYs5WmCBcKvx6B7DyWcKsJ39wi0IAGCi 835OHuTAzhWrlmBxKG5N1i1QdeczPG7LZBIhop6NHpbFR8stWc7/w7oTWSagqS/m rKv69FdUomF+ppQwZLKsxpLvEnUDLdSU/HrCrNdDNkiflA9PJiwCfSzH+D8yMw7c sSGRh01UHmYrkj+eY++2Sh05WE+8F6ngnRJ8K8DO17ljE2UkLtjR7+CV3IC94WWw 5WnTCPvvFDifWyZspkjbWAt4Tz0smdSx0whzUFOC+TGZfQflkxSkblPMtM+rugc= =vkeQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
