I do not feel or spead fear about global warming, i'm no street gluer, evangelist or greta-follower in any way.
The numbers are just suggesting we're going over the tpping point faster than expected, which matters quite much.
That's the message. Please ask before assuming anything. I'm communicating in a very un-implicit manner, your projections don't work in this case.
Happy to know that you don't
fear warming. Sorry that I implied you having that emotion. It was out of the experience that most people posting stuff about it have a kind of fear too..
However reading your posts led me to believe that you are at least quite worried... would that be wrong as well?
I'm impressed, and not in a positive way, about the growing list of "unconvenient" data. You can say i'm worried about the burdens that will be put upon us by politics. Stupid leaders influenced by "the economy" and greed. No, i'm not positive about that.
I would love you (as a fellow human being) not to live in constant fear or worry about anything. Life is short, and only a very few assholes deserve to live in constant fear or worry. I feel that you aren't one of those assholes..
I hope so too
Fear is coming from the inside, and i got my experiences with it about 25 years ago. However, fear has its uses, so it's not bad per se, but that's another story.
Regarding tipping points... good luck getting those right with computer models of non linear chaotic systems to which we don't even know the correct inputs
Afaik tipping points are nothing new in climate science. Almost every ice age, for example, has them with abrupt warming events...
Irreversible.. maybe in our life time... but "serious" forecasts of said systems of 1k, 10k, 100k years into the future give me a warm inner chuckle of seeing a toddler pretending to be reading a book.
Yeah, tipping points are highly theoretical subjets, but the warming is somewhat latent and also shows a good degree of "snowball effect", so if we completely stop CO2 production, the warming would still go on for a long time. The models can't respect every parameter, if already known, and Methane shows to adds a surprising lot to drive the warming even further. You know how the onset of an exponential up-curve looks like. We're still early but we can't do much about it to slow it down.
Regarding that lifetime aspect: You're right. Do you have kids btw?
I have generally kept my family life out of Bitcointalk and I will continue to do so.
So when my hypothetical child gets old enough and decides to believe some narrative, and worries about it, he/she would be free to do so.
As for me I have no worry about climate change. And that has nothing to do with my age or if I have children or not.
I know that most people in western societies startet to care about it, because they think that they have been presented sufficient evidence.
And that's all fine and dandy as long as they don't push their worries and fears onto others.
But that's exactly what I see happening... mostly in a lecturing passive aggressive kind of way.
Seems they miss that we all are basically just a bunch of monkey-like retards. And that we better not get too serious about what we think we know.
Btw. you are totally right, feelings of fear and worry can be very useful too.
However they are merely a signal to tell you something. So when you* got the message, hang up the phone.
(that's actually what Jimbo once said about LSD, but imo it also fits on how to deal with emotions as signals
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*not
you personally
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