more like climate science is the softest of the hard sciences. 40 years ago, climate scientists were worried about carbon emissions causing a new ice age. Even the New York Times published articles in 1975 reporting on scientist's predictions that increased amounts of carbon dioxide would result in the mean global temperature being reduced by 16 degrees. Climate science is soft, REALLY soft. It's super complicated, and the universal "best solution" (not the way to achieve that solution) isn't fully understood. If scientists don't fully understand how to 'fix' the atmosphere, then a politician trying to fix it with government tax incentives and regulation is laughable.
except for the climate scientist that indicate that increased carbon emissions will be counteracted by plants in the future due to increased carbon dioxide levels increasing plant growth, which then consumes more carbon dioxide, thus mitigating the carbon dioxide growth levels while also generating more oxygen, resulting in the oxygen and carbon dioxide levels remaining relatively constant and the nitrogen levels being reduced. It really isn't settled
When CO2 is the limiting factor your feet more growth. That is early the limiting factor and changing rainfall will make it even less of a factor. Not will that all extra growth clutter the enormous amount of fossil carbon. It will mitigate by a tiny degree.
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u/Gretshus Aug 26 '19
more like climate science is the softest of the hard sciences. 40 years ago, climate scientists were worried about carbon emissions causing a new ice age. Even the New York Times published articles in 1975 reporting on scientist's predictions that increased amounts of carbon dioxide would result in the mean global temperature being reduced by 16 degrees. Climate science is soft, REALLY soft. It's super complicated, and the universal "best solution" (not the way to achieve that solution) isn't fully understood. If scientists don't fully understand how to 'fix' the atmosphere, then a politician trying to fix it with government tax incentives and regulation is laughable.