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Originally Posted by Pierre
I’ve never said climate change isn’t happening or real.
But, I reject that it is an emergency. I reject the race for net-zero. Of course we should reduce emissions but setting arbitrary deadlines forcing people to change to more expensive, less reliable products will just cause problems
People will change to greener alternatives by themselves when they are competitively priced, reliable, work just as well and the infrastructure is there to support them.
Forcing people to change and/or scaring them into changing is not the right way to change peoples habits.
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I agree that realistically we need to find alternative, climate-friendly, ways to enable people to live their lives normally otherwise we're doomed to failure. It's why I am a big fan of nuclear power and frustrated we're so slow on the uptake of it.
People still need cars, will take flights, will need to live within their means.
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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
The cycle is not plucked from thin air. It doesn't matter if my 150 years acceleration is right or wrong - climate change is due anyway.
You got OB withdrawal symptoms?
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You keep ignoring the scale of the change because you've seen one graph that doesn't show scale.
The temperature does change but it takes place over tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of years in a cycle. It's measured in geological ages. The last one was quick but still takes much longer than we've had civilisations. We're talking about a dramatic increase in the speed of warming. As I said before it's warming 17x faster.