As a climate scientist, I thought we had come a long way in the world but reading this thread has been very disappointing. To see so much anti-science and pseudoscience amongst a tech-savy demographic is about as devastating as it gets. No matter how much access of information we have, people still end up misinformed.
Those of us who know something about science and have studied the issue simply don't trust the data advertised by the chicken-little crowd. It's demonstrably fake a lot of times, and you 'climate scientists' have been caught engaging in fraud for money often enough.
There will never be a magic bullet entire idea that we can just invent our way out of living in an unsustainable way is why our backs are against the wall now. Of course we have technology that can take CO2 and turn it into energy. Theyre called trees and we are cutting them down.
No 'technology' except nuclear fusion can 'take CO2 and turn it into energy'. That is an ignorant thing for a high school physics student to say, much less a 'climate scientist'.
In my area when you cut down a tree dozens will grow back where they have sunlight to do so. The same phenomenon exists in every part of the world I've visited, and I'm relatively well traveled.
Geoengineering could bring the temperature down but not in the same way we are raising it. Our goal is not to bring the temperature down. Our goal is to keep things like they were. An Earth with less incoming radiation, more co2, and the same temperature is still a completely different Earth.
I have serious doubts that you are either a climate scientist or a commie, but let's say for the sake of discussion that you are. This would be a good example of a 'watermelon'. Green on the outside and red on the inside. The climate change scammers make no bones about the fact that their overall goal is to change the economic system of the world, which explains why they have no compunction about engaging in pseudo-science and outright fraud.
The sad thing is that a lot of the boots on the ground really in their heart of hearts believe in Socialism/Communism/whatever and earnestly believe that that is what they are working towards. They are not. The people who pull their strings (e.g., issue them grants) are the oligarchs who made their pools of wealth in the industrial revolution timeframes (often in the energy sector) and are engineering a way to keep and grow these pools of wealth in the post-industrial times. You are not going to get 'communism' out of this green scammery. The design goal is to get a more complete dictatorship with a technocratic control grid. Those who actually do have a strong belief in 'socialism' will probably be bumped off. But most of these people believe that 7 billion is to many people for the planet anyway, so at least they get to be 'part of the solution' for a change.
The scientific community has an easy way of outing fradulent science and the peer review process weeds out anything that isn't credible. All of the data used to reach a scientific consensus is reproducible. If you have doubts about the credibility of scientific consensus, you are a science denier.
My quote calling tree technology was sarcasm. Its obvious that forests cannot grow back if the land has been developed or is still being used for farming or grazing. Its true that temperate forests grow back relatively quickly but haven't traveled to enough tropical places because tropical rainforests have difficulty growing back once they have been cleared as the soil is quickly depleted. Even a simple process like growing bananas and shipping them away depletes the soil because the nutrients are in the bananas being shipped away and that biomass never returns to the soil.
Scientific thinking involves actively rejecting your biases and identifying root causes or problems. People don't destroy the planet because they want to, they do it for survival and profit. This is because capitalism creates an economy that puts no value on the health of ecosystems, or the distant future. Anyone who searches for the root causes of environmental problems will arrive at capitalism as the culprit. This doesn't make anyone red or a communist but solutions to capitalism-induced problems will clearly be at odds with the mindset of maximizing profits at all costs.
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CO2 concentration and temperature are linked (greenhouse effect). The natural limit before the industrial revolution had been 300ppm so the temperatures that correspond to the correct amount of CO2 (180-300ppm) would be the correct temperature. ...
So you are not going to answer my simple question.
Surely a climate Scientist should be able to tell us.
What is the correct temperature of the Earth?
If that's difficult, then can you tell us simply what the equilibrium temperature of the Earth is?
Note how easy this should be. I'm letting you pick the temp during the Medieval Warm Period, The Little Ice Age, the last 100 or 200 years. Or the average of the last 1000 years. Or the average of the last 100,000 years.
That should be
Climate Science 101 - first quiz, first week. Right?The question itself is a distraction from the cause of the problem. Temperature change is a response to human greenhouse emissions. Just one of the many responses. Instead of focusing on one effect, why not focus on what the amount of carbon dioxide should be because its the root cause of all of the other things we are worried about?