The climate on the planet has never been a particularly stable thing. It has always swung between greenhouse and ice age kinda time periods.
This isn't to say that I haven't misrepresented the situation horribly in my above comment. In geological terms, from what we know the world is heating up. What we aren't as sure of, is how much humans are affecting the rate that it is changing, but there is evidence to suggest that we are increasing that rate of change.
This is why I get angry at climate change deniers, but less so at people who are a little more skeptical about how much humans are effecting it. In some respects I have a lot of patience for the people who are going, well its going to change anyway, what exactly do we do to cope with that? My other complaint is that all the energy stressing about being carbon neutral and focusing on climate change, ignoring many other problems.
Peak oil is an entirely different issue, that I honestly don't remember much about at the moment. So probably. If this new medication wasn't making me feel so goddamn sick I'd find my old readings on it. I know there's a few good documentaries, but I can't remember the names.
If you follow the ideas that technology will solve all, like some people do, the hydrogen fuel cell problems will be sorted out, long before oil runs out anyway.
Please note: While I have technically filled my requirements for geography, including a heap of units on the environment and management, I haven't done any specific climate studies units yet. They've only just been opened up to regular geography students (so I'm doing one, maybe two next year). So my understanding is still a gross simplification, just not as much as the ones currently in the media.
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This isn't to say that I haven't misrepresented the situation horribly in my above comment. In geological terms, from what we know the world is heating up. What we aren't as sure of, is how much humans are affecting the rate that it is changing, but there is evidence to suggest that we are increasing that rate of change.
This is why I get angry at climate change deniers, but less so at people who are a little more skeptical about how much humans are effecting it. In some respects I have a lot of patience for the people who are going, well its going to change anyway, what exactly do we do to cope with that? My other complaint is that all the energy stressing about being carbon neutral and focusing on climate change, ignoring many other problems.
Peak oil is an entirely different issue, that I honestly don't remember much about at the moment. So probably. If this new medication wasn't making me feel so goddamn sick I'd find my old readings on it. I know there's a few good documentaries, but I can't remember the names.
If you follow the ideas that technology will solve all, like some people do, the hydrogen fuel cell problems will be sorted out, long before oil runs out anyway.
Please note: While I have technically filled my requirements for geography, including a heap of units on the environment and management, I haven't done any specific climate studies units yet. They've only just been opened up to regular geography students (so I'm doing one, maybe two next year). So my understanding is still a gross simplification, just not as much as the ones currently in the media.