Doubling of CO2 Not So Tragic After All?

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I hope that nice things happen and not bad things.

The real problem is that we do not yet have Climate Science. What we have are Climate Models.

If the physics of gases has stopped with Boyle's Law one could hardly say we had a science of gases, pressures, temperatures etc. With simple formula's like Boyle's law we would still be short of having a proper science of thermodynamics. Similarly we are short of having real Climate Science. One reason is that we do not yet know all the natural drivers of climate change (as opposed to human causes).

There is a link between cosmic rays and cloud formation in our atmosphere. Clouds are the main controlling factor of how warm our atmosphere becomes. All the Chicken Little AGW Models tend to down play the effect of cosmic radiation.

What really worries me is that some attempt will be made to changes the amount of sunlight received on the earths surface and there will be Unintended Consequences to such fiddling precisely because Climate Science is so primitive. As a result attempts to make things better may backfire completely.

ruveyn

Ruveyn, the standards you set up for "climate science" make it impossible by definition. Those same standards also deny the possibility of biology as a science.

Do their optimism account that a specie of stupid primates is currently destroying the jungles.
A dead tree is not very good to absorb CO2.

Just a thought but if the world gets warmer wouldn't that mean more water evaporates into the atmosphere blocking more sunlight causing the world to get cooler? Or am i completely wrong.

the planet has had warm periods before, nature will adapt. The main question is; will we?

We're already running headlong into a catch-22 regarding oil with some countries being nearly totally dependant on it (Denmark is a good example as there is no infrastructure here for gas- and hydrogen powered cars, we don't even have E85 fuel yet as it is not profitable to buy green cars due to high taxes (180%+) for importing cars). I predict that humanity will face great problems then, especially 3rd world countries as there will be few alternate power sources by then. The US would also suffer a great impact unless enough changes are made... the US might even cease to exist as a nation if we don't do something now.

The fall of the US aside, changes have also been noted in the oceanic currents, especially in the Gulf Stream, which has become considerably weaker througout the years, which may have us look at a small ice age within a few centuries.

but first and foremost, we need to find out whether human technology or nature is behind the current warming period, whether it's our fault or nature's normal cycle. If it is indeed a part of nature's normal cycle, then nothing should be done, there is no reason to do so as we can do nothing to prevent it. Even if it is our fault, the damage has been done, there is nothing more that we can do except for taking over control of the climate... a very dangerous task.

Nature as a whole will adapt, but many extant species will not. Evolution takes vast periods of time, longer as the generation time increases, and this change is happening over decades; the larger species that don't even reach sexual maturity until they're decades old will not be able to adapt.

I hope that these critics are correct, but I suspect that they are not; failing to include plant absorbtion of CO2 in a climate model of CO2 seems like stupidity, not like an oversight that the climate modelers might have missed by accident.

sudo aptitude purge excess-co2 global-climate-change

Now was that so hard? You are welcome.