Without carbon capture that's just going to turn Earth into Venus lol
Tell us you know nothing about climate "science" without saying it outright...
Anyone unironically arguing for an ideology that has not worked in even one country that has implemented it in history without immediately hybridizing to state capitalism is usually like that...
You... uh... do know that all the fossil fuels came from atmospheric carbon, right? Mainly decomposing plant matter.
We know exactly what the atmosphere looks like if every last fossil fuel is burned and released into the atmosphere. The answer is "roughly what it looked like when dinosaurs roamed the world".
I don't think dinosaurs could survive on Venus.
It would be a warmer world, no doubt. It might even be hot enough to prevent humans from safely living near the equator. But it's a big world, and there's a lot of area that even at the most extreme points of the ancient past were still what we'd consider temperate environment.
Humanity as a whole would survive.
Adding to this, the world, right now, is probably at one of its coldest points that still allows wide ranges of habitation and weather cycles (additionally the planet right now is actually JUST above the minimum CO2 level needed to sustain life) in its recent geological history (which is several 100 million years, or the entire cycle since the last Snowball Earth).
Additionally, seeing as climate alarmism has shifted to blaming cow farts after CO2 failed to deliver its purpoted warming potential and instead caused the Earth to become greener (that is, increase non-algae plant biomass around the planet by a significant margin), I'd say nobody will have any problem with CO2 in the future. Or with Methane, despite the reported greenhouse factor. No, I don't believe the clathrate gun hypothesis. Actually, I have reason to believe that all the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, in all their massive digesting might, were probably producing more fart-methane in aggregate than all the agricultural animals in the world and leaking polar methane combined.
Back on the warm Earth thing: The planet was overall warmer during the classical and medieval periods than it is today, in all regimes and measurements. If Bronze and Iron age peoples survived and thrived to the point of creating the foundations of our current civilization then I really can't bring myself to believe that a warming Earth would be as much cause for alarm as megalomaniacal technocrats trying to scare entire countries into surrendering their sovereignty and dignity in fright. Religious terror dressed up as secular terror went out of fashion sometime around 1796...
A few thousands years ago, when mankind was thriving, the global temperature was so high greenland was overran with forests.
If anything, looking at things historically, we are in a dip of the lower end of temperature trends.
And at the same general time, the Sahara was covered in sparse forests and steppes, before some unknown calamity (possibly connected to the cause of the Younger Dryas) quite literally washed it all away and turned it into the IRL inspiration for Arrakis that we all know and despise today.
Okay fine I was being hyperbolic, but none of us want to live on a world at 2000 ppm. We'd still be living in shipping containers eating bugs, but we'd all be doing it in an alien world that our civilization isn't prepared for in the slightest. If more than a few million humans survived it'd be a miracle.
Slow the revolution, Lenin, we're not even above 420ppm in spite of China doing everything in its collective power to pump the atmosphere with the combustion products of carbon-based chemicals.
You might be.
If civilization collapses... I plan to live in a house made mainly of wood (naturally sourced atmospheric carbon supplied trees!), subsisting on plantlife (fun fact- as atmospheric carbon goes up, so too does the growth rate of plants... lots of greenhouses and hydroponics farms actively get CO2 pumped in to improve growth) and woodland critters.
More or less the same way I live, today. Just... less voluntarily...
Not having the internet would suck for a while, but probably be better for all of us in the long run.
Not living in the "developed" world has its perks.
Like not being fed dystopian propaganda 24/7, being inoculated against said propaganda by half a century of communism, being far away from the center and strongholds of the playing card tower built by the End-Of-History crowd and the fact that my country's economy is heavily agrarian to the point where we could be self-sufficient at 1950s technology levels with little imports aside from the most heavy industrial apparatuses.
So no people around and the weather was way warmer that it is now? Thanks for the correction, good to know humanity is pretty inconsequential in affecting the weather.
All of our industry can't even challenge
trees simply rotting in the forest, stands to reason we can't influence the weather in any meaningful way.
This isn't even taking in account the massive cyclical algae blooms and dieoffs caused by massive amounts of artificial fertilizer washed out onto the sea by freshwater streams
Ah, you must live in a city your entire life and have never lived in rural areas. Yeah, the world will be completely alien to you then, particularly if you're not willing to prepare yourself to farm.
Aaaand you went for it before I could.
But agreed. Urbanites talking about the environment is a proven recipe for losing braincells.
Hopefully nuclear winter cancels out global warming
Posadist Moment.
Warming also produces extreme weather,
Ah yes.
Like all the acid rain predicted in the 70s.
Like the global cooling predicted in the late 70s and early 80s.
Like the nitrogen buildup predicted in the 70s that will kill all life on the planet.
Like the lifeless oceans and rabid killer bees predicted in 1970.
Like Manhattan being foretold to be completely below sea level by 2015.
Like the Super Hurricanes foretold two decades ago.
Like the 50 million climate refugees in 2020 that we were told will exist back in 2005.
Did I ever tell you... the DEFINITION... of... Insanity?
