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Pastimes : Severe Weather and the Economic Impact
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To: jazzlover2 who wrote (6840)5/30/2024 3:30:32 PM
From: LoneClone   of 7186
 
OT: A full explanation would of course require pages of writing and hours of explanation.

The quick answers are twofold.

First many governments are not meeting their goals for GHG reduction and there have been many examples of cheating on quotas.

But more importantly, for these measures to take real effect will take decades, and the changes are not going to occur in a linear manner. Remember the climate is a system of equilibria, so changes tend to happen in a non-linear manner rather than gradually.

The latter is the reason why elected politicians, who are trained to think ahead only as far as the next election, have so much trouble dealing with issues like this. It is noticeable that longer-tenured leaderships like the Chinese Communist party and the insurance industry take the problem much more seriously.

I will also take the opportunity to point out a major difference between scientists and climate change deniers. If the evidence shows our current understanding has flaws, the scientists will change their ideas in response. But the deniers, at least the ones I have interacted with, don't really care about what is actually happening. Theirs is like a religious belief that is immutable and cannot be challenged by evidence.

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