I mean, we aren’t totally screwed. Just climate will get worse and worse until we stop burning fossil fuels. It will eventually stabilize at whatever amount of carbon we end up at when we stop. It’s just, how bad will it get in the meantime.
Won’t stop us from mass migration, and deaths on an order of magnitude that makes covid look like a blip, and also mass extinction of a large majority of the species on earth. But, we can pull through (I think, maybe)…
I mean, the species on the planet, and the climate kind of is, so yeah, it kind of is. What’s your definition of screwed that says the planet itself will be just fine?
The carbon sequestered in the earth in the form of coal, oil and gas hasn’t always been in the earth. After all, hydro carbons are in fact hundreds of millions of years of dead trees buried under mud sequestering atmospheric CO2. Which implies there was a time with all that CO2 in the air yet still trees to capture it. By releasing it all, we reset the biosphere’s clock to about a time when earth supported a different kind of life (one without us in it), but life nonetheless.
Frankly, the comparisons to Mars and Venus seem a bit overblown.
You assume it will get better when we stop burning fuel but many things dont just get better when you stop doing what is bad. A lot of things have a point of no return, where you can’t just undo all the damage that has been done
I’m not assuming, that assumption is rooted in science. I’m also not saying things will get better. What I am saying is that the climate will stabilize at whatever new normal there is with the amount of carbon in the carbon life cycle, that means whatever extremes exist at that point, will continue to exist.
Does science say when things will stabilise after we stop using coal and oil? I bet it’s not immediate. I bet it will take a lot longer than many think if not hundreds of years just to stabilise into something that maybe isn’t even liveable.
Also though there are already products being made in carbon negative processes including sequestered jet fuel and various building materials. The cost (economic and ecological) of power generation has fallen dramatically and continues to do so while design tools continue to improve, this enables better and more ecologically’ sustainable infrastructure which will help increase the rate of transition to ecologically’ sustainable living.
We absolutely will be pulling significant amounts of carbon out of the atmosphere in twenty or thirty years from now, both from bio processing (algae to plastic for example) and direct capture.
It’s hard to guess what the world will look like in a hundred years but any model that assumes things will stop changing is just being silly.
Yeah, I’ve seen a lot of research on carbon sequestration, and I’ve not seen anything actually promising on it. We can’t rely on processes that aren’t in place, and aren’t proven to work to pin the hopes of our species, when the real solution is right in front of us. Stop burning fossil fuels
I’m not am expert in it, my partner does research in climate adaptation, and there are people who do that research in her department. As far as I’ve heard, there isn’t anything that promising on the horizon.
And I can’t stress this enough, we should not be relying on tech to try to save us when all we have to do is stop burning fossil fuels. It’s really that simple. But everybody wants business as usual, so we’re putting our hopes in pipedream technology that doesn’t exist hoping it will save us from ourselves. Seems pretty stupid to me.
Ha ok, changed a bit now hasn’t it? So you talk to your partner in depth about these subjects but can’t ask about it to help you answer the questions because of reasons…
What you actually mean is without doing any research you assumed something that fits with your preconceived dislike of technology solutions? Or maybe you just saw someone else say it so repeated it with a slightly exaggerated truthiness tone to and make it seem more believable.
Stop burning fossil fuels isn’t something we can just do over night, especially when people fight against good alternatives - and double especially when people fight against them based on knee jerk emotional response without really knowing much about it…
Carbon based efuels are going to be a huge part in the transition to an ecologically sustainable society, the model using sequestered carbon and renewable power generation is just one of several incredibly promising areas of chemistry at the moment.
40 years ago i had a t-shirt that said the world was running out of time…
Time won’t help any more
I mean, we aren’t totally screwed. Just climate will get worse and worse until we stop burning fossil fuels. It will eventually stabilize at whatever amount of carbon we end up at when we stop. It’s just, how bad will it get in the meantime.
Won’t stop us from mass migration, and deaths on an order of magnitude that makes covid look like a blip, and also mass extinction of a large majority of the species on earth. But, we can pull through (I think, maybe)…
Earth isn’t screwed. Humanity is.
I mean, the species on the planet, and the climate kind of is, so yeah, it kind of is. What’s your definition of screwed that says the planet itself will be just fine?
The carbon sequestered in the earth in the form of coal, oil and gas hasn’t always been in the earth. After all, hydro carbons are in fact hundreds of millions of years of dead trees buried under mud sequestering atmospheric CO2. Which implies there was a time with all that CO2 in the air yet still trees to capture it. By releasing it all, we reset the biosphere’s clock to about a time when earth supported a different kind of life (one without us in it), but life nonetheless.
Frankly, the comparisons to Mars and Venus seem a bit overblown.
Life will adapt and rebuild.
You assume it will get better when we stop burning fuel but many things dont just get better when you stop doing what is bad. A lot of things have a point of no return, where you can’t just undo all the damage that has been done
I’m not assuming, that assumption is rooted in science. I’m also not saying things will get better. What I am saying is that the climate will stabilize at whatever new normal there is with the amount of carbon in the carbon life cycle, that means whatever extremes exist at that point, will continue to exist.
mmmnope. Heard of the clathrate bomb?
There is a fuckton of methane locked in permafrost soils.
Once they start to melt, you get a chain reaction.
Does science say when things will stabilise after we stop using coal and oil? I bet it’s not immediate. I bet it will take a lot longer than many think if not hundreds of years just to stabilise into something that maybe isn’t even liveable.
Also though there are already products being made in carbon negative processes including sequestered jet fuel and various building materials. The cost (economic and ecological) of power generation has fallen dramatically and continues to do so while design tools continue to improve, this enables better and more ecologically’ sustainable infrastructure which will help increase the rate of transition to ecologically’ sustainable living.
We absolutely will be pulling significant amounts of carbon out of the atmosphere in twenty or thirty years from now, both from bio processing (algae to plastic for example) and direct capture.
It’s hard to guess what the world will look like in a hundred years but any model that assumes things will stop changing is just being silly.
Yeah, I’ve seen a lot of research on carbon sequestration, and I’ve not seen anything actually promising on it. We can’t rely on processes that aren’t in place, and aren’t proven to work to pin the hopes of our species, when the real solution is right in front of us. Stop burning fossil fuels
Have you now? A lot of research, and nothing promising?
Tell me about the things you’ve seen research on, like the closest to being promising but not thing that you’ve read research on…
Should be easy because you’re basically an expert in the tech, right?
I’m not am expert in it, my partner does research in climate adaptation, and there are people who do that research in her department. As far as I’ve heard, there isn’t anything that promising on the horizon. And I can’t stress this enough, we should not be relying on tech to try to save us when all we have to do is stop burning fossil fuels. It’s really that simple. But everybody wants business as usual, so we’re putting our hopes in pipedream technology that doesn’t exist hoping it will save us from ourselves. Seems pretty stupid to me.
Ha ok, changed a bit now hasn’t it? So you talk to your partner in depth about these subjects but can’t ask about it to help you answer the questions because of reasons…
What you actually mean is without doing any research you assumed something that fits with your preconceived dislike of technology solutions? Or maybe you just saw someone else say it so repeated it with a slightly exaggerated truthiness tone to and make it seem more believable.
Stop burning fossil fuels isn’t something we can just do over night, especially when people fight against good alternatives - and double especially when people fight against them based on knee jerk emotional response without really knowing much about it…
Carbon based efuels are going to be a huge part in the transition to an ecologically sustainable society, the model using sequestered carbon and renewable power generation is just one of several incredibly promising areas of chemistry at the moment.