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Climate Change - What is the Stacker News consensus view?
745 sats \ 8 comments \ @cristaiji 16h science
I’m really interested in climate and have been looking more in depth since about 2020.
I wondered what Stackers think?
What prompted me to ask was this short recent film that is in line with my own view and explores the politics of the issue as well as the science.
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40 sats \ 3 replies \ @Scoresby 16h
As far as I can tell, bitcoiners seem to be skeptical of claims of human-caused climate change, but perhaps less so of climate change in general.
Personally, I'm of the mind that humans are capable of planetary changes to the climate and at the same time pretty bad at modeling such a complex system as the global climate. This is not to say we shouldn't be worried about global warming, but that we should proceed with caution when making significant reactions.
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109 sats \ 2 replies \ @cristaiji OP 15h
That’s a fair assessment. Yes Bitcoiners seems to be generally sceptical of catastrophic projections regarding the climate. Which I think is the right approach.
The more I look at the science of climate the more complicated it becomes and the less consensus there seems to be about a ‘climate emergency’ or a need for ‘Net Zero’ which is being pushed in the UK.
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28 sats \ 1 reply \ @denlillaapan 14h
Yeah, there's definitely no need for things like that, and I cringe every time I see or hear serious people talk about climate "crisis." Just go away
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113 sats \ 0 replies \ @Signal312 9h
I was in Europe recently. Almost every conversation you have with people, something comes up about climate crisis. Also it's pretty much on every front page of the newspaper.
For instance, I was doing some long distance biking, and it's hot, and the friendly guy I encountered and was talking to must have just read an article because he brought up a "climate crisis" talking point.
Apparently before 2000, occasions where there were 3 days in a row where the nighttime temperature doesn't go below 20 C were very rare. Now, he says, they happen a lot more.
And I'm thinking...that seems like a stretch. How did "they" happen to come up with that particular metric - not going below 20 C at night for 3 nights in a row? Seems kind of random. They probably ran a bunch of numbers till they found something that fit the "crisis" narrative.
People are defensive about this crisis, too. I was talking to a lady recently (French) whose daughter was getting a degree in "environmental science" or something like that. I said something that I thought was pretty mild, like "Oh, a lot of kids are getting that kind of degree". And she got a little huffy, and said, "Well, we really need them!"
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62 sats \ 0 replies \ @justin_shocknet 10h
The climate is constantly changing, there's an unlimited number of variables that goes into it and its impossible to control or predict
Slapping "science" on system of perverse incentives is an attempt to squelch REASON
Destroying reason is how you strip-mine one piece of land just to poison panel another, incentivize the destruction of your enemies farm, all while making yourself rich and getting applauded for it
The paradox of the climate hoax is that it has financially captured the real environmentalist movements that once pushed backed on the actual harms being done to the land sea and sky.
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23 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 13h
I've said it before, I believe in climate change, but I don't buy that it's for the reasons they tell us. It's all a massive industry moving billions.
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11 sats \ 0 replies \ @rebel_nomad 14h
Communism
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11 sats \ 0 replies \ @denlillaapan 14h
Mostly an irrelevant fad.
It's probably taking place — I'm not rejecting that idea, don't think it's a hoax — and probably caused mostly by humans (closed system, burned carbon fr the ground, more CO2 trapping heat).
But it doesn't matter. We have plenty of more important things to worry about, climate change doesn't kill anyone, and using fossil fuels for cheap, abundant energy we can weather(!) any storm
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