RE: Climate Change Tipping Points19 Aug 2024 20:35
It's striking to me how people nowadays still want to doubt the scientific facts.
Maybe it's my own scientific background which makes me prone to think scientists aren't straight up lying to me. But maybe it's also my common sense. I invite you to visit this Google Maps Link below [1] and zoom in over Portugal until you notice weird green and yellow-brownish rectangles. I'd like you to breath in the magnitude of the extend of farmland which nowadays replaces where we once had a forrest. I want you to scoll across the map until you find a comparatively large body of forrest. Spoiler alert: There is none. Eurasia is one single large acre.
Why am I saying this?
I really don't need any scientific measurements in order to deduce that this must have in impact. And that's just one tiny piece of evidence which anybody can non-scientificaly look at. It's not proof, but it's certainly a very significant indication.
It's absolutely unnecessary to mentione the amount of coal and gasoline we're burning since the 1800s. It's quite ridiculous to see anybody stating they are "pessimistic" about climate change. Even more so if they are, presumably, living on an island which itself is one fully inter-connected acre just as the continent they belong to.
[1]: https://www.google.com/maps/@38.9710991,-5.0516361,540403m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu