UAH Global Temperature Update for April, 2024: +1.05 deg. C

If you don’t know what the optimal temperature is, then how do you support Net Zero?

Jim, again, the 100th time, the immediate problem here is the rate of change. It’s extremely big compared to, as per the current scientific understanding, anything we can reconstruct for the past. As for temperatures (as opposed to their change), there are estimations that above a certain threshold (a few degrees C of rise in the global mean!) certain parts of the Earth will become uninhabitable with long, persistently warm episodes above 45C or so. The Persian Gulf is one such region. So in a sense there is a range that is kinda bearable to not just us but the whole biosphere. We may not call it an “optimum” but it’s still something like that.

Are you really concerned enough to have already:

I love when you deniers are bsing. For a starter, climate change is not something you can just ignore. This is the whole point. Regardless of whether we can easily handle it or not. But anyway, your “questions” are just strawmen, a whole squad of them. You don’t have to choose. You know, our industry, even on its current technological level, can substitute fossils. Unfortunately, that’s true that capitalism, by and large, is unable to handle any challenge we face. So in a sense, you’re right, we will have problems. But saying that we are unable to solve them is definitely false, furthermore, you’re saying this to prevent (even if unconsciously) a big industry that has an annual avg investment of 1 trillion dollars.

A true believer would be the first to do the things necessary to reduce their carbon footprint

Again, bsing, on multiple fronts. I’m not a “believer”, but this is the least of the problem here. Individual footprint, individual actions are nothing here. I want to refer you back to the inability of capitalism to solve any actual problem, and this is the fundamental reason why we almost always only talk about individual action. Useless. Three or four industries give the bulk of fossil consumption, energy, chemical industry (usually neglected by everyone), heavy industry in general (like steel production), and transportation. I can see nothing here that can reasonably be addressed with individual action (like not flushing toilets after pissing). We have to fundamentally restructure the economy but we can’t do that ‘cos the current western ruling elite is in the way. Restructuring is not destroying however hard you are pushing that.

Ah, I’ve just discovered this gem of an answer of yours 😉

A true believer would lead by example.

As per above, that would be participation in armed struggle against capitalism. Do you really want that?

How long do you think you’d last?

Well, currently Western capitalism is in a deep crisis. It means if it was an armed struggle, my chances would be getting better and better every day.

yourself comparing proxies with measurement

I’m not comparing anything with anything. Scientists do, I’m just listening to them. You should do that, too, instead of bsing in the comment section of an obscure blog.

question everything

This is mostly meaningless in everyday matters, that’s the sad news for you. And it’s especially meaningless in a well researched field like climate science. And anyway, if scientists say something is settled, you’d better listen. You can’t just dismiss that with some bsing in a blog.