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Old February 13th 17, 01:12 AM posted to sci.astro.amateur
Chris L Peterson
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Default An Alternative View of Global Warming

On Sun, 12 Feb 2017 16:05:21 -0800 (PST), Quadibloc
wrote:

The Georgia Straight is a newspaper that is basically considered to have
represented the hippie population of Vancouver.

So I won't claim it is the most credible source.

http://www.straight.com/news/868051/...in-10-20-years

However, given that so much that errs in the opposite direction, advocating
climate denial, sees print, to see something that points out even the mainstream
could be too conservative is of interest.

If an increase in temperature by four degrees would mean that plants produce more
carbon dioxide than they take in, of course, even if human extinction will take
longer than ten years... we *would* be definitely on the way to ending up like
Venus. Except the plants would all burn up before we got there.


Abrupt climate change is a real possibility, and there is geologic
evidence of it having occurred before. But at no time over the last
billion years or so has the Earth found itself in a climatic state
that humans couldn't survive. So I have my doubts that extinction is
likely to be in the cards. Mass disruption and the collapse of our
societies is a much more likely scenario given a few degrees
temperature rise in a century or less. (Whether that's better than
extinction is a matter of opinion, of course.)