r/climatechange discusses mitigation tech and more doomerism

>climate change is fake, drilll baby drill

"Climate science" is just taking the temperature change from the last 3 years and using it to cause inaccurate predictions such as:

• Global desertification (alla Mad max)/global iceage (alla Snowpiercer) no inbetween

• Global famine, pestilence, armageddon

• Total societal collapse, extinction of all life on Earth

Obviously if the temperature average raises 1degree each year for the next 75 years we are doomed. It's all human's fault. So we need to:

• Stop using fossil fuels globally.

• Limiting our electricity usage to 1kW a week. ASAP.

• Cannibalize each other to save resources. Yt people first of course.

Do you live in a developed country? If so, you're fine.

One thing to understand is that technically we're in an ice age. See, an ice age happens when there's a continent covering at least one of the poles, which causes it to be covered in ice and reflect sunlight, making the Earth cooler. Antarctica exists, so we're in an ice age.

In that context, the world is looking pretty warm for being in a continent-on-the-pole period. During the dinosaur period, there was no continent on either pole, so it was warmer everywhere. But continents move slowly and releasing 5000000000000 tons of carbon dioxide in a century causes changes to happen much faster, which is unnatural. Basically all of human evolution occurred during the present ice age (the "Quaternary Glaciation") so we would be in an environment we don't belong in without it.

The Earth was ice free 50 million years ago. The problem is not warming per se but rather the speed of the warming, the CO2 we pumped in the atmosphere has done in 150 years what nature takes over a millennium, it's simply not enough time to adapt which means species of animals going extinct, ecosystems disappearing and human migration in zones suffering from food insecurity, expect internal migration before international, it also increases the number of extreme weather events (stronger hurricanes, higher frequency of droughts and floods in different parts of the world, etc) and rising sea level costing hundreds of billions of dollars in damages. The northern hemisphere is ironically warming up much faster than the Southern Hemisphere but considering you're Canadian, that's probably one of the few countries which could benefit from the warming.

If we increase the templatute at the polar icecaps we could sink new york city

Wasn't the entire world tropical at one point in the past

Yes, before humans existed. If it goes back to that, the planet will once again belong to the megarachnids and humans will die out

Climate change has negative consequences mostly for 3rd world countries but for westoids it's just rapture for the new religion that is replacing christianity

The main concern is rapid change of habitable zones, arable land, water tables etc.

If large parts of Africa become inhospitable, even if this is offset with thawing in Canada/Norway/Russia, do any of them want to take in a billion Africans? Or if the Indus dries up to the point it can't support both India and Pakistan, will either country accept millions of deaths, when they have nukes and a neighbour whose share they could steal?

It might frick up the economy real bad in the worst realistic scenario.

You should care about the climate because it's going to cost us a lot of money !!

Yeah there used to be turtles living in the arctic circle. The problem is that we're big mammals who evolved during the ice age, so a warmer earth won't be super comfy for us.

Think of it as a war on terror equivalent

What if it cracks? 7 years of bad luck