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0 sats \ 8 replies \ @kruw 22 Feb \ parent \ on: Are humans responsible for climate change? To what degree? AskSN
The UN did not predict "unprecedented droughts" and they did not predict "an uptick in wildfires, hurricanes, and floods". The UN's hypothesis was that nations would be "wiped off of the face of the earth".
Why didn't you mention the benefits of a warmer planet? If you can't defend the UN's falsified hypothesis, then you should at least steelman how humanity gains from a warmer climate.
It seems silly to me to reject the scientific consensus on basis of a cherry-picked sensationally phrased prediction in a newspaper article from 36 years ago not having come to pass. If you read the rest of the article, you see the desertification and droughts right there mentioned next to it.
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If you read the rest of the article, you see the desertification and droughts right there mentioned next to it.
Yes, I read the part of the article where the UN's claimed there would be "dust bowl like conditions", which was falsified as well. My point remains untouched: Why didn't you mention the benefits of a warmer planet? If you can't defend the UN's falsified hypothesis, then you should at least steelman how humanity gains from a warmer climate.
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You said the UN's science is "directionally correct", how would you know if you didn't even look in the other direction? Clearly, the UN's predictions about global warming was proven false, so it's worth looking into the ACTUAL results that came from performing the scientific method.
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Temperatures have been rising as predicted. Desertification has been progressing as predicted. Ocean levels have been rising as predicted. More people have been dying due to extreme heat events. Storms, hurricanes, droughts, floods, extreme weather swings, and wildfires have been increasing as predicted.
You claim that the increase in temperature is beneficial. You have not provided an argument or piece of evidence in what way that might be the case. You're making the extraordinary claim, it's on you to substantiate it.
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