Dribbling a fundamental part of the game and that hardly happens anymore. :)

He is 16 and has never worked a day in his life.

What don’t you think I understand about it? I don’t disagree with what you just said. Perhaps I just have different values? There have been plenty of mass extinctions before, some of them even caused by biological processes. We are also a biological process.

As did the earth worms that till the soil.

I think the biggest real concern would be sudden chaotic changes to weather patterns on a very large scale. Like the ocean thermohaline circulation getting messed up. That is at least plausible if not likely, and could be majorly disruptive.

Exactly, the perfect example. Current climate change journalism and frankly the opinions and speculation part of a lot of the journal articles is shading into “smoke a joint and you will be a coke addict” territory.

Well just because we cannot stop a 2*C warming does’t mean we should shoot for 8*C. We need to get the emission under control.

Umm if you actually get into health policy and epidemiology this is a well known confounding factor in death rate analysis. Sure “flu” kills lots of old people, people who were severely compromised and likely to die from something very soon. Not all flue deaths or heat stroke deaths are like this, but a lot of them…

I have read dozens and dozens of articles on this and the bottom line is there is zero to no idea what will happen or how this may or may not be triggered. The idea that there is a 100% or frankly even 20% of some methane mass extinction is laughable and the research does not in any way support that currently.

Yeah how do we grow food in such diverse locations as Edmonton, Calcutta, Napa Valley, and the Patagonia...oh yeah we do just fine.

“Sure, I’ll buy it. The“normal” migration of Mexican citizens to the United States over the past 25 years hasn’t generated any angst amongst the American populace.” its also created better living conditions for those migrants and a lot of economic growth in the US. But we are only allowed to focus on the negatives…

Joz honestly I think that in the long run we would have decided to warm the planet anyway even if we were not doing it accidentally. We still need to get our emissions under control as unplanned changes to the atmosphere are a bad idea. But when you think about human civilization 200 or 300 years from now, we are…

You think we are going to run out of food in 30 years due to climate change?

Well the ocean has been much more advisories in the past and these types of creatures have been fine. In fact the recent research has been that they are already adapting and that acidification seems to be having less and impact than projected. Who could have predicted that?

The no childish adult mentality that is more considered with reality and pragmatism than caving to sensationalism?

Yeah we had one at a couple thousand person company. Email was down for at least a day.

Ok Jared Diamond. I read those books too. So entertaining! There is a big difference between the robustness those civilizations and ours. Orders of magnitude difference. And even in those cases he was really stretching his case.

Uh huh. Yeah its all a big web. And like a web there are a lot of lineages and flexibility. Kill to many X, now the babies of too many Y survive and now they catastrophically predate food source Z and the whole ecosystem falls apart! OMG! Except when it doesn’t. These things can and do happen, but there is no reason…

Lets agree to disagree. I assure you I know how the world works. Why exactly do you think I am wrong? You think that ants and grasses are going to be the first things to go? Because that is silly. Most of the ecosystem is dominated by a few highly successful groups of animals, and those ones are more than robust…

It does when you make an argument as part of the same comment.