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Originally Posted by Isaac Zachary
That article in that post is about the ill effects of rising CO2 levels. It says plants will, overall, have more photosynthesis and use less water, but that there were many other worse consequences that counteract those benefits.
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It's a Columbia University article, so of course they are going to explain why us dumb folk don't understand why good news is really bad news.
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Ironically dinosaurs died from climate change, which is what's happening.
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If you call a blast furnace from an asteroid climate change, then sure. They didn't die because it got 2 degrees warmer, they died because it got hundreds of degrees warmer, then froze due to sunlight being blocked out.
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It's not that the plants and animals on the Earth can't survive if it's a bit different than now, as long as things are relatively constant so life can adapt.
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That's what I've been saying, that the rate of change determines the rate of stress on species to adapt.
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What? Just because you don't care doesn't mean I don't, and/or vice versa.
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I didn't say I don't care, only that my belief in any particular direction is worthless because the experiment will be played through.
You missed my point though, that global warming will never be high on the list of calamities that befall people.