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Originally Posted by gunnut
But by the same token, the current trend in warming or cooling is a geological instant, which will return to normal in an instant as well. In this case, an instant is like a few decades to a few centuries. The world was cooling for 3 decades from the 40s to the 70s. The it decided to return to normal for the next few decades. All in a blink of an eye.
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Only, if I understand what I've heard correctly, it ain't normal for the temp to rise this much, this quickly. And thus, animals don't have time to adapt, and go extinct, and humans don't have time to adapt, and we have Manhattan waterpark, the bay of Bangladesh, etc, etc. And if we're really, really unlucky, the Gulf Stream goes haywire, or those frozen methate deposits melt, and we have even more wacko climate changes. Not that I think this stuff will happen, but I'm keeping an open mind. And I do question whether the risk of all this happening is worse than the known costs of cutting CO2 production.