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Politics : The Trump Presidency
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To: combjelly who wrote (88010)8/8/2018 12:21:01 PM
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When you put it like that it's silly. But having been involved with too many funerals in the last few weeks and years, I'm sad to report that extinction events are the norm.

Expecting the future to simply extrapolate from the past is a bung idea as the Club of Rome would now agree.

Extrapolating with continued population reduction and technological acceleration 2100 is going to be a lot different from now even without super grand scale calamitously cataclysmic catastrophes. Maybe that's a bad extrapolation but maybe not.

Whether we need to reduce CO2 output is not at all certain. After 100 years of vast effort to excavate and burn carbon we have achieved bugger all. Not even 1 degree and it's uncertain we can really claim any of that. And we have only got CO2 to 400 parts per million from 280 ppm. At that rate it'll be a cold day in Hell before we get CO2 even to 600ppm which would be a tiny fraction of what was in air once upon a time.

People are going for photovoltaics, efficiency, insulation. They are evading buying good old oil and coal. At $70 a barrel there's a lot of incentive to do something else and they are.

Donald Trump's attitude is to wait and see. Also that China, India and the 95% of the world who are not Americans should do it. USA has already slashed CO2 output per GDP.

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