I believe it can happen in areas, but the confluence of factors leading to explaining global is based on embarrassingly faulty mathematical understandings, and it becomes evident this is the case in other fields, especially paleoarcheology, when we are clearly seeing different climate shifts during our species tenure on the planet. I don’t believe the manipulation of carbon output will “save” jackshit, cause Climate Change > Human Carbon Footprints by a massive, terribly large margin. It’s a fucking joke from a archaeological perspective, if I’m forced to accept humans are causing sea levels to rise, then I’m forced to accept Flint Knapping caused the Bearing Land bridge to submerge, and that the origins of metal working culture cut off the last off the Wolly Mammoths on a Island off Alaska 4,000 Yeats ago.
That’s retarded, but that’s exactly the clever logic I’m being asked to accept when looking back in time, and I’m deeply unimpressed with attempted forced change in definitions such as changing it from “Global Warming” to “Global Climate Change”… Didn’t stop it from bring a retarded theory, still as fucked up and stupid as before. Might of worked on me in 4th Grade, but I’m a adult, I know that is a lousy gimmick. Likewise further adapting it as "it is mostly natural, but ALSO human influence, and these complicated, ludicruse carbon tax schemes will save us, reversing it… " is 100% certainly wrong. We were already trending hotter, last interglacier period was hotter than this… no amount of carbon manipulation will reverse that, again Nature > Human. We are barely renting it, and currently can’t make it any cooler through carbon emission tricks than what it already would of been- and it was by default getting hotter and hotter, definitely has the last 10,000 year. So I see that as a idiotic psuedo-science, as solutions go.
As an analogy, let’s say someone sold you a burning house… previous tennent didn’t want it anymore… was on fire. Gave you a fantastic deal… you move in. No real problems at first, tad bit muggy, you sit on the couch (graciously came fully furnished) and you light a cigarette. Smoke it… Then light another… Smoke it, finish it… Then light another.
Your wife never approved of your nasty smoking habit, and notices it is getting hotter. She sees the flame and smoke in your cigarette, blames it.
“Every time you light that cigarette, it gets hotter. Your cigarette emissions are causing a massive temperature spike.”
She drawls up some graphs, going off her wristwatch and thermometer on the wall… proving conclusively that your cigarette smoking is causing the temperature spike. You… Smoking on the couch, note to her that the house was on fire already when we bought it and moved in… So your not to blame.
She then says that indeed the house us on fire, but the temperature spike is a combination of House on Fire/Cigarette smoking causes, and that by not smoking, we can lower the overall temperature of the house down to natural room temperature. You point our this is a bunch of bullshit, look at that wall, it is clearly on fire. She sees the cat is on fire, from the wall, and it is screeching and screaming, and blames you smoking a dozen feet away for hurting it with your cigarette smoking, and demands you get serious, get real, show some compassion towards the cat, if you would only stop smoking, the fire would stop burning.
That is our current state of argument.
I can agree with One Liner that environmental awareness is “potentially” good, but we have to admit, the Carbon Scare is A Boy Who Cried Wolf scenario. Gaia isn’t a entity, doesn’t give a fuck about you or your spiritual stewardship, it has it’s own damn plans, and doesn’t give a rats ass for your weak, illogical reasoning.
We should be focusing on real ecological problems, like localized breathable air. My town was declared by Time Magazine back in the 60s to be the most polluted city in the world… I made a lot of money in the 90s as a kid sweeping sidewalks, getting up all the pollutants that would fall. Air is breathable now. Had shit to do with carbon or global warming, had someone tried to pull that scam, it never would of been cleaned up.
The Global Warming debacle needs to be immediately abandoned by the left, and we need to properly build up the environmental sciences. It created a rather scary and abhorrent feedback loop of psuedo-science fear mongering amongst the left by former Christians turned atheists still clinging onto a apocalyptic fantasy. Stoics used to believe the universe ended through environmental collapse and then by fire too… Kin Dza Dza! Played on that theme, one half of the universe was a dry, used up pist-capitalist desert, while the other half (our half) was newer, still green.
Eating Vegan, dancing to the goddesses of earth, smoking pot, watching NBCNews, while talking about Chomsky and Zizek while recycling your biodegradabkes in compost and recyckeables separate from the trash won’t ever keep it from not getting hot as fuck, even if we all follow to the last.
It was already getting, hot as fuck. Our civilization peaked coincidently (or perhaps not coincidently) at this point, and it comes as a bewildering shock.
No… we can’t keep the weather frozen in our grandparents era, nor can we morph it back to the 1700s, or the 1200s, or the 500s, 3000BC, 12,000BC, 20,000BC, 100,000BC.
No amount of exhortion or compromise, funny figuring or exasperation or call to liberal social networks or educational status is going to convince me otherwise. I"he looked it over 100 times, I’m convinced it is a bullshit substitute religion for atheists who can’t let go of Christian and Stoic assumptions. They cling to it out of absolute necessity.
I’m a Christian, I firmly believe god has a plan for all our deaths, and has been plotting it for centuries, and that no amount of carbon trickery will defer his revenge for crucifying him. He clearly has a grudge, and we are fucked. Sounds laughable to many of you, but hey… at least I can approach the environmental sciences rationally and skeotically because of it, you can’t precisely because you lack it. It is your alternative religion, and you can’t see how cultic or controlling the fears are to you.