Audio book is my preferred, I can't do all the names in my head. Or Jess of the Shire's fabulous 30 minute retelling on a whiteboard, really impressive.
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Also Melkor's chaotic role in Eru Iluvatar's grand song.
My phrasing may have sounded like the "humans aren't the problem" climate deniers, but my point was that our amounts are only a percentage of the natural ebb and flow of CO2. The problem is that our addition was enough to tip the scales and cause an initial slow climb that has gotten faster and faster, and our percentage (which has itself magnified in the past few decades) is still a part of an increase from other natural sources that would have stayed dormant had we not started the process. Human activity was the catalyst of the reaction, and usually a catalyst amount required isn't large.
Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C
If we plateaued right now and did everything possible to draw CO2 out of the atmosphere and oceans, it would probably take a few thousand years to get back down. The reasoning - we weren't the main CO2 contributor, we just were the extra catalyst to throw things off to begin the acceleration up. So now that things are off balance and feedbacks are kicking in, how can we reverse what we put into the environment AND counter the extra feedback outputs? It's like trying to stop the boulder that was easy to push onto the hill slope.
Biggest difference there is time. How many older things (mostly embedded systems) are still functional. Y2K had a smaller gap of time to redo active software that would not be depreciated before then.
Great, another Y2K thing. If we make it that far.
Is 12/31/2099 as high as a ban will go?
How is this surprising? We know that part of LLM training is being rewarded for finding an answer that satisfies the human. It doesn't have to be a correct answer, it just has to be received well. This doesn't make it better, but it makes it more marketable, and that's all that has mattered since it took off.
As for its effect on humans, that's why echo chambers work so well. As well as conspiracy theories. We like being right about our world view.
Not sure this guy understands
That's far enough.
Huh. Who would have guessed that would happen? /s
So you disagree with her stance? Or just how much attention she's bringing to the topic? Why does it bother you?
Depends on their goals. If they want the US powerhouse to topple, then fanning this flame is very productive.