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(08-22-2019, 01:23 PM)michaelsean Wrote: But are the shifting patterns only worse because of how we are arranged now or are they worse overall.  I'm not suggesting one way or the other, but it seems a little ridiculous to just assume we are now at the ideal climate and any shift is a disaster for this planet.  

It's quite a sensitive balance. One issue are feedback loops - think melting ice caps mean less ice on the surface, meaning less sunlight gets reflected and it gets even warmer. Or the oceans/tundras that can hold less CO2 because ot the warming, hence releasing more gas in the atmosphere and making things worse. Or a collapsing gulf stream. There are many of these feedbacks, and not many are even understood.

Now "worse", by that I might think about spreading deserts, flooded coastal areas, sour oceans (which might be bad for microorganisms, which will be quite bad for every other life form), vast portions of inhabitable lands, quite certainly more hurricanes and things like that. Things that won't necessarily extinct us, but the crisis developing might do the rest - think about climate refugees, wars over ressources and cultivated land and so on.

Now the planet sure will survive, we don't need to save the planet. We need to save us. And even if you assume humankind might be able to survive and arrange itself with a warmer planet in the end, this process would come with much death and devastation still.