Climate Change is here and man made

There's a clock graphic which shows that humans have been on earth for about 30 seconds in the grand scheme of things.

During that time we've wrecked the planet.

You could argue that a lot of it was down to ignorance but there's no excuse now.
 
I wonder whether humanity will eventually be able to devise technology to remove huge quantities of CO2 from the air. It’s an eye-watering undertaking, but never say never.

What we are doing to the oceans in particular is disgusting. There’s too many people on the planet. The current levels aren’t sustainable, from the planet’s perspective.
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
I wonder whether humanity will eventually be able to devise technology to remove huge quantities of CO2 from the air.
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Of course we will. It's impossible to imagine the sorts of technologies we'll have available in 50 or 100 years time. For a start, we'll probably have nuclear fusion cracked by then, so (a) we won't need to produce any CO2 in order to generate energy, and (b) we'll have essentially limitless "free" energy to power all sorts of carbon sequestration technology which isn't conceivable right now.

Jumping through ever more ludicrous hoops now, in order to fix a problem which is 100 years away, would not be such a silly idea if there were no adverse consequences. But there are enormous adverse consequences. The numbers of people who die in the developing world each year is astronomically high and to seek to constrain economic development in those countries (which is the effect of imposing strict carbon emissions targets) condemns literally millions of people to a premature death. And then there's the rather silly idea of trying to fix a future problem with old technology. A bit like deciding to fight world war 3 with bi-planes.

There's nothing wrong with prudence, but the climate change challenge is WAY over hyped and politicised.
 
Ban-jani said:
Absolutely correct.

Could not agree more in fact.
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Only it isn't exponential.

World population is predicted to flatline at around 11 billion. Challenging enough to sustain that number of course, but to imagine it's just going to inexorably rise, let alone inexorably rise at an exponential rate, is not correct.
 
Chippy_boy said:
Only it isn't exponential.

World population is predicted to flatline at around 11 billion. Challenging enough to sustain that number of course, but to imagine it's just going to inexorably rise, let alone inexorably rise at an exponential rate, is not correct.
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Odd to reply two years later, I can’t even remember posting the above.

Do you have any content to back that up?
 
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