← Back to context Comment by callamdelaney 7 months ago And in 299 years the climate may have changed again, as it is wont to do (and has always done). 6 comments callamdelaney Reply ClumsyPilot 7 months ago And 65 million years ago an asteroid detonated with the power of all of the world’s nukes combined, so there is no need to worry about nuclear war.And timespans are like that for climate too, millions of years not 299 callamdelaney 7 months ago The little ice age lasted from 1300 to 1850 [0], so 299 years is not orders of magnitudes off.[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age ClumsyPilot 7 months ago That’s less that half a degree, barely noticeable. Climate change is predicted to be 6 degrees or thereabouts 1 reply → mmooss 7 months ago Is that a subtle attempt to argue that climate is changing on it's own, and not by human agency? Say it if you mean it. nkrisc 7 months ago And in 1000 years it will be different again. What’s your point? The fact it has and will always change doesn’t change anything about what’s happening now.We can choose to mitigate the change or make it worse for ourselves.
ClumsyPilot 7 months ago And 65 million years ago an asteroid detonated with the power of all of the world’s nukes combined, so there is no need to worry about nuclear war.And timespans are like that for climate too, millions of years not 299 callamdelaney 7 months ago The little ice age lasted from 1300 to 1850 [0], so 299 years is not orders of magnitudes off.[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age ClumsyPilot 7 months ago That’s less that half a degree, barely noticeable. Climate change is predicted to be 6 degrees or thereabouts 1 reply →
callamdelaney 7 months ago The little ice age lasted from 1300 to 1850 [0], so 299 years is not orders of magnitudes off.[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age ClumsyPilot 7 months ago That’s less that half a degree, barely noticeable. Climate change is predicted to be 6 degrees or thereabouts 1 reply →
ClumsyPilot 7 months ago That’s less that half a degree, barely noticeable. Climate change is predicted to be 6 degrees or thereabouts 1 reply →
mmooss 7 months ago Is that a subtle attempt to argue that climate is changing on it's own, and not by human agency? Say it if you mean it.
nkrisc 7 months ago And in 1000 years it will be different again. What’s your point? The fact it has and will always change doesn’t change anything about what’s happening now.We can choose to mitigate the change or make it worse for ourselves.
And 65 million years ago an asteroid detonated with the power of all of the world’s nukes combined, so there is no need to worry about nuclear war.
And timespans are like that for climate too, millions of years not 299
The little ice age lasted from 1300 to 1850 [0], so 299 years is not orders of magnitudes off.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age
That’s less that half a degree, barely noticeable. Climate change is predicted to be 6 degrees or thereabouts
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Is that a subtle attempt to argue that climate is changing on it's own, and not by human agency? Say it if you mean it.
And in 1000 years it will be different again. What’s your point? The fact it has and will always change doesn’t change anything about what’s happening now.
We can choose to mitigate the change or make it worse for ourselves.