• SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    It would have just taken longer.

    You could say that. The earth in general changes temperature one degrees in a few millennium if it’s in a hurry. Humanity is causing changes of a degree in a decade. It’s unnaturally fast.

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      5 months ago

      I think that math is way off. We didn’t have all these polluting machines in the 1800s, yet the 1800s were warmer than the 1700s. We didn’t start using cars until the early 1900s. Same with planes, and it wouldn’t be until the 1930s that we got jet engines that pollute in the way you think of today.

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        5 months ago

        Just watch that xkcd graphic my dude. Somebody else already linked it. It makes the issue very clear and is quite scientifically based.

        Yes, everything you said is factually true. That doesn’t mean your interpreting it all correctly. We not just accelerated it, we where strolling along the path of planetary heating and then decided to step aboard the Starship Enterprise and screamed: “MR SULU WARP FACTOR NINE, STAT!”

        We’re fucking with systems (planetary weather patterns) we can’t comprehend. And to solve it we again fuck with that system but now not by adding energy (heat) but by removing energy from it (wind, radiation)

        I think both will have issues. But for now removing lots and lots of energy from the system will greatly benefit us.

        In the end it will always come down to population control or going interplanetary as a species.

        More people on this planet, in this system will always mean more heat. Remove the excess from the system and it will find its equilibrium again.

        But… Removing the excess sounds nice but isn’t. Especially when you are deemed to be the excessive one.

        You want to know where global warming can lead to? Look no further then Venus.

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          5 months ago

          The comic was over 22,000 years, and the tempature got cooler over time. Which right off the bat isn’t true.

          But also, I’m talking about over billions if not trillions of years.