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sukhavati | 2 years ago

based on scientific research, much like communism and scientific management and phrenology and racism. meanwhile climate models are not capable of predicting the past given current conditions, produce wildly incompatible results, and operate on a model of the earth that is pathetically simplistic, ignoring cloud coverage (which has 3-20x the magnitude of effects of carbon) solar variability and wind patterns. the world might end as we know it for it is clear that crucial features of the earth are changing at a rapid pace, especially oceanic currents, but it will happen in a way that completely surprised most people, if not climate scientists that are aware of the limits of their models.

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dTal|2 years ago

> ignoring cloud coverage (which has 3-20x the magnitude of effects of carbon)

This is like complaining that tidal models are useless because they ignore waves, which have a larger effect on water height than tides.

(The same analogy applies to claims of the form "how can we possibly predict the climate decades ahead of time when we can't predict the weather 2 weeks from now")

Justsignedup|2 years ago

You grouped a lot which is not equivalent.

Communism is not based on scientific research.

Racism is real. And crt provides good insight with high degree of predictibility as to how our system of laws work to assist existing racial inequalities.

In any case, this feels like you're building a strawman.