Pretty easy to be a communist when we predict all this shit, literally all the time lol

Steven Pinker eat your heart out

  • RationalRhetoric [he/him,none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    My favorite thing as a PhD in atmospheric physics is reading comments in whatever climate subs disparging the pessimistic tone of /collapse.

    Motherfucker if youre not pessimistic youre delusional.

    • RationalRhetoric [he/him,none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      Like look at this shit. It's one thing to be hopeful in the face of things but lol "no bad news allowed".

      https://www.reddit.com/r/ClimateActionPlan/comments/jff5u7/can_the_moderators_please_ban_the_people_who_post/

    • RationalRhetoric [he/him,none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      [Guys just vote for Joe Biden itll be fine]

      https://www.reddit.com/r/climate/comments/jgo019/joe_biden_has_the_most_progressive_climate_plan/

    • Reversi [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      So... you're the resident expert. What's 2050 going to look like assuming nothing changes?

      • RationalRhetoric [he/him,none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        I shouldnt overstate, I study atmospheric chemistry not climate modeling. But according to the IPCC a business as usual approach (RCP8.5) would put us past 2°C already by 2050 (and towards several degrees by the end of the century).

      • RationalRhetoric [he/him,none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        I don't know as much about the clathrate gun as I should but last I read about it, the finding was the effects had been overestimated. I'll check and get back to you. In any case the breathability of the air isn't really the problem. Methane is just 30x worse than CO2 as a greenhouse gas.

      • RationalRhetoric [he/him,none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        Hey I checked back and yeah, you dont need to lie awake nights worrying about the permafrost methane changing the atmosphere overnight.

        https://science.sciencemag.org/content/367/6480/846.summary

        https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-1991-8

        (Let me know if you want to read the full articles)

        Our fate is not sealed by the physics, our challenges are political.

    • happybadger [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      as a PhD in atmospheric physics

      Wow. Say, what's your favourite kind of air? I like wind.