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Human_Anybody7743 t1_j3ruz2l wrote

Reply to comment by Rear-gunner in Controversial Proposal to Reduce Global Warming Could Threaten Ozone Regeneration by Rear-gunner

A single year of increased attention does not a global consensus make -- especially when your set of papers includes one where the author was talking about both warming from CO2 and cooling from aerosols and changed his mind as to which was larger after seeing more evidence. That's almost as stupid a stretch as including any article that contains the word cooling. And I guarantee you don't want the famines, global instability, snap freezes, and storms that go with your wish.

On top of that the 'hur durr them fought it was gunna get cuuld' argument is utterly morally bankrupt anyway.

Both effects are real. Both effects were fairly widely agreed to be significant since the 60s.

Not knowing which was bigger or more permanent and which way fossil fuels were going to fuck everyone isn't a reason that 'stop using fossil fuels' hasn't been the objectively scientifically correct position for the better part of 70 years.

Any sane society would have started the renewable transition in the 40s when wind turbines were first proven viable (or paid attention to the firstcommercial solar panel in 1906) as the risks of aerosols were fairly universally accepted even if CO2 was still up in the air.

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Rear-gunner OP t1_j3s56oi wrote

IT was not my set of papers but yours. How do you see famine in a hotter world, hotter world=more food production.

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Human_Anybody7743 t1_j3s8nlt wrote

> IT was not my set of papers but yours

And it demonstrates the opposite of what you are claiming on multiple levels.

> How do you see famine in a hotter world, hotter world=more food production.

Because desertification, mass floods and giant storms never disrupt food production.

You're clearly not interested in truth or logic here.

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DeepSpaceNebulae t1_j3sq4ew wrote

Heat allowing plants to grow faster reaches a max pretty quickly followed by a significant drop in efficiency due to moisture loss in the leaves via the stomata (stomata are the small pores in leaves that open to take in C02 and expel O2)

Too hot and the leaves need to become smaller and reduce the amount of CO2 they absorb or else they lose too much water to the air and dry out.

Don’t know why I keep seeing this “it’s better for plants” nonsense. Like claiming a flood is good because it provides everyone water… before drowning them

Also, famine is what you went for? We produce more than enough food right now, it’s distribution that’s the problem. Or will hotter temps allow for easier food distribution?

Edit: To add, it doesn’t matter what the world was like millions of years ago or how animals will adapt… we are adapted for the unusually stable climate of the last few thousand years. Our entire civilization; food production, population distribution, etc; is all based on the current climate. As the climate changes the cost of adapting will become untenable. If the 2 million refugees of the Syrian war was bad, what do you imagine a billion+ climate refugees will be like. There are already population migrations because of climate change, megacities running out of water (dependent on no-longer predictable rains or melted glaciers) rising coastlines, declining seafood stocks, etc. This isn’t going to happen tomorrow, but it will probably be your children and children’s children that will really start to feel its impact

We will adapt, we’re the most adaptable creature that has ever lived, but without doing something now to combat climate change the costs will be unimaginable.

And this may seem doom and gloom… but that’s because it is! We’ve known definitively about this for 50 years and have done nothing. The oil companies themselves discovered this, but chose to bury it and spend billions on misinformation.

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ialsoagree t1_j3sqknv wrote

How do you figure a hotter world improved food production?

The science showes that under increasing CO2, plants prefer decreasing temperature to grow more biomass. Under both increasing temperature and CO2, plants show no increase, or even a decreased growth of biomass.

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