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Roger Pielke Jr.'s avatar

From Mike Hulme:

“The ‘success’ of climate policies can only be captured by slowly unfolding abstract scientific indicators that no citizen can ever experience, such as net carbon emissions, carbon dioxide concentrations, global temperature”

https://mikehulme.org/climate-medicines-do-not-alleviate-the-symptoms-of-climate-change/

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Frank Paynter's avatar

"Make no mistake, mitigation is important and it can work."

Huh? You make this claim based ONLY on the possibility of detecting changes in atmospheric CO2 concentration - and NOBODY has shown ANY correlation of CO2 concentrations and global health. In fact, the only real evidence is the opposite - the earth is currently at a global minimum of CO2 in the atmosphere, and if it continues to decline it will almost certainly negatively affect global plant health (and therefore, the health of every living animal on earth).

So, I fail to see how your statement that "mitigation is important" tracks with reality, unless you meant this sarcastically. If we get to that point, we may actually be detecting a global biota collapse of biblical proportions - not quite what the "Climate Emergency" folks had in mind (or maybe it was!)

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