"It's worse than we thought." Sound familiar?

[joshcryer]

29. The trend is scientific reticence. They're downplaying the effects.

The scientists see the high end projections and to save their asses they keep downplaying it. The latest projections are horrific. Wait until sea ice is gone. You'll live to see it unless you have cancer or are a shit driver (let's hope you drive properly).

Any "knowledge improvement" is likely to be worse than what is expected. BTW, the latest trend is 4C or thereabouts. Do you have any comprehension as to what that will do to the environment? Coupled with Peak Oil (which is inevitable, even basic physicists understand that). The world is going to go to shit and there is absolutely no evidence we plan to do shit about it.

Negative feedbacks were a denialist hope, a dream, a fantasy, they aren't happening. Hell, I would've believed that they might be possible were it not for the historical decline in arctic sea ice. Now we have a guaranteed, 100% positive feedback, Greenland is melting at an increased rate, the Antarctic is melting at an increased rate (300 cubic km every year). It's mind boggling. It literally is incomprehensible.

There were some idiots who used to post here denying the effects of climate change. One fucking dumbsit actually believed that waste heat from nuclear power plants was the cause. What a fucking idiot he was. Waste heat. Contributing less than .02%, the cause of climate change. The fucking sun has brightened more than that over the years. This kind of deflection is simply nonsense. Fuck the deniers. The shit is about to hit the fan. We've hit the tipping point. We need to make a ten trillion dollar investment if we're going to stem climate change. It's simply not happening. Hell, the politicians are worried more about the goddamn fiscal cliff. No, that's not what's going to fuck humanity. Drought, sea level rise, increased temperatures are going to fuck humanity.