| Pemalite said: Not all CO2 is in ice. |
From what you linked, the ocean is a carbon sink rather than a net carbon producer. The ocean acidification phenomenon is down to the observation that the ocean absorbs carbon ...
| Pemalite said: People have been forecasting peak oil for over a century, it still hasn't happened yet, we keep finding more... And we keep making our current reserves go farther. I.E. Ethanol. |
Ok this time it's for real and here's a graph showing it ...
Most reasonable current estimates have oil production peaking well before 2030 and that's being pretty conservative given past estimates didn't have all that advanced mechanical extraction technology like we see today so we're arguably close to hitting a physical and financial limit to petrochemical extraction but what's more is that there's now good reason to believe so more than ever ...
Producing ethanol through biological means is hardly financially viable either. At that point electric vehicles become more attractive but we won't even have enough lithium reserves so that every family will be able to have one ...
The 2'C warming will mostly be down to cold climates since we have an atmosphere to regulate temperatures around the earth so there's not much reason to believe that already warm climates will see much more discomfort at all. The warming will be vastly beneficial since huge landmasses like Canada and Russia will become more habitable so in the end we're getting more arable land than we are losing them ...
| Pemalite said: Positive. As temperatures rise, more CO2 is emitted from Oceans and Ice... More water is evaporated which is one of the largest culprits of the Greenhouse effect. |
Define "exponential" ? Is it with respect to the temperature increases or CO2 levels ? If it's the former, nobody is measuring temperature increases "exponentially" even if CO2 levels are increasing exponentially, at best temperature increases will be linear in that case ...
If CO2 levels are increasing linearly then temperature increases will be "logarithmic" ...
| Pemalite said: Considering I live in one of the closest inhabited cities to Antarctica... It's certainly a worry about my region becoming geopolitical and exploited. Already oil companies are attempting to drill in one of the most pristine waters in the world which is in my backyard. |
That "city" is probably recognized as part of Australia's sovereign territory by the international diplomatic community. The same cannot be said of Antarctica itself ...
| Pemalite said: Any politician that goes against Science, should honestly not be a Politician. |
The vast majority of politicians we see today go against science. The political right is an offender in all sorts of areas (climate/abiogenesis) while the political left is a massive offender in biology. (particularly studies regarding genetics) It's all too laughable that liberals will combat theoconservatives with the basis of evolution but when someone more educated about the subject themselves try to educate them on the "consequences" or "ramifications" it has especially on human populations they are in absolute denial about it undermining the principles of evolution itself. It's OK to cross lines with theoconservatives but apparently it's somehow too sacred to apply it to humans in which case even the neo-nazi's are sadly more scientifically correct than them in that specific area ...
You also see the Green's being devout anti-nuclear energy ...
The only remotely successful technocracy we see in this world is China which is hardly desirable to the current western liberal democracy. Scientists do not want to be bogged down in shit like "consensus" or "democracy" so the first thing they do when they are in political power is to consolidate it with an autocracy in which case such a philosophy can only thrive in the absence of rule of law which is rife with human rights violations. It may seem paradoxical but for a free republic like a democracy to thrive, it's that all thoughts must be represented and respected including ignorance ...
If you want a solid technocracy then you must take the other pill known as an autocracy for it to be effective otherwise the former will be easily undone with democracy ...
