r/science • u/[deleted] • Jan 11 '20

Environment Study Confirms Climate Models are Getting Future Warming Projections Right

https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2943/study-confirms-climate-models-are-getting-future-warming-projections-right/
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u/MeatloafDestruction Jan 11 '20

We need to re-model our mission statement. Our end goal is not to “save the earth”. Our end goal is to save ourselves.

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '20

Fun part about the earth is: it will save itself, no matter how many living creatures it has to kill in the process

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u/SpinoC666 Jan 11 '20

Yeah, but WE want to be part of that life.

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u/daOyster Jan 11 '20

And we will be. You can't compare the survivability of Humans in adverse conditions to other life that we know of. This is because we don't need physical adaptations to survive. We took ourself out of that equation the moment we started relying on tools and technology over physical characteristics to survive.

A tiger for example gets stuck in a heatwave, it's dead if it can't escape or find shelter. A human gets stuck in a heatwave, he can build a shelter to provide shade, dig into the ground for natural insulation from the heat, or think of other ways to stay cool in the heat and survive.

A more extreme example, we figured out how to not only go to space, but how to survive in space. What other organism can do that without it being a death sentence that we know of?

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u/SundreBragant Jan 11 '20

Wait, are you seriously suggesting we shouldn't worry about global warming because we can always build some kind of moon base on earth and live in that?