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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: stsimon who wrote (494966)7/20/2022 12:29:56 PM
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Exactly, the synergistic effects get too complicated to predict with any certainty.

<Only a relatively small part of the world's population has air-conditioning. Suppose we add s billion households to the current number of sir conditioned homes. How much electricity will that take and how much more damaging green house gases will be generated as a result? We are in a dangerous positive feedback loop that might destabilize the climate in ways science hasn't imagined.
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