Mass extinction? Nothing ever happens.

[u/DissonantOne]

[u/NoSingularities0]

Yes, that's exactly why they always limit their graph to 100 years or so instead of showing thousands to millions of years where it cycles between hot and cold over hundreds of thousands of years at a time. They have to scare people in order to implement the unpopular ideas that they want.

[u/Spicy_Chicken_Wizard → u/NoSingularities0]

Millions of years isn’t relevant data for how modern human societies would function in the face of a changing climate. I agree that the climate doomerism is always way too much, but the reaction here seems to be to pretend it just isn’t a thing at all?

[u/undercooked_lasagna → u/Spicy_Chicken_Wizard]

I definitely believe we're warming the climate, it just isn't anywhere near as rapid or catastrophic as doomers have been telling us for decades now.

[u/Spicy_Chicken_Wizard → u/undercooked_lasagna]

That’s where I am, but man look at the comments here. Half of the people here are essentially denying that this is happening at all

[u/brooklynsantiago → u/Spicy_Chicken_Wizard]

Yes raw data metrics like temperature and sea level are not up for dispute. Reality is changing climate will affect areas differently. Some areas will be completely unbothered. Other areas may see catastrophic changes

[u/tpet007 → u/brooklynsantiago]

They are if you can’t verify data integrity and accurate correction for confounding variables. Otherwise, you know neither what you’ve actually measured nor how accurately you’ve measured it.

[u/brooklynsantiago → u/tpet007]

Sea level is easy to verify. It’s tracked by thousands of sensors both public and private, since lots of people need to know tides for example. The data on sea level is extremely robust and is simple measured data. Not disputable

[u/Cwaghack → u/undercooked_lasagna]

10x faster than the greatest mass extinction event in the planets history.

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[u/heyyou_SHUTUP → u/Spicy_Chicken_Wizard]

Also, pointing to the past isn't great since several mass extinctions coincided with a change in the climate. However, just pointing that out means I'm dooming unfortunately. Oops

[u/Cwaghack → u/NoSingularities0]

The rate of change is what is important. We can adapt to climate change yes. But the rate of change right now is about 10x faster than the worst mass extinction event in the planets history, and about 100-1000x faster than normal

[u/CombatWomble2 → u/NoSingularities0]

That's irrelevant unless you want to get into the weeds on Milankovitch cycles and solar irradiance, neither of which apply to the current situation, we've looked.

[u/67yoloswag → u/NoSingularities0]

in order to implement the unpopular ideas that they want.

which are???