Hi Eliot. Watched your interview with David Baum. You have a perspective, and you have an answer to the question ‘What to do?’ Does anything big feel missing? Do you still have to figure something out? Or you pretty much feel you know what’s going on and you know what to do? Malcolm.
I don’t know what’s going on or what to do. I find those who make firm date-certain predictions of doom, or have a fixed formula for action that will save us, to be less credible than those who live and cope as best they can with uncertainty.
The certainty is that the planet is collapsing under the weight of modern human civilization, which includes the suffering and possible extinction of countless species.
Fair question. Here are all the greenhouse gases with historical concentrations and projected out until 2500. https://gmd.copernicus.org/articles/13/3571/2020/
Thanks! Shame on NOAA for not making that clear.
My first article addresses this question. See "the third mistake" and it's fix.
This is confusing to me. Pre-industrial the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere was about 280ppm. But there was significant…
Complete cessation of burning fossil fuels is on the far side of Net Zero, and we're making very little progress…
Hi, Eliot. Thank you for this discussion. My big takeaway is 1.5 by 2027ish, 2.0 by 2035, and 2.5 by…
Thanks for this. The big nugget of clarity I got from this was the example of what reducing emissions 7%…
I think that must be someone else. My writing about climate issues is all on this site.
Hi Eliot. Watched your interview with David Baum. You have a perspective, and you have an answer to the question ‘What to do?’ Does anything big feel missing? Do you still have to figure something out? Or you pretty much feel you know what’s going on and you know what to do? Malcolm.
I don’t know what’s going on or what to do. I find those who make firm date-certain predictions of doom, or have a fixed formula for action that will save us, to be less credible than those who live and cope as best they can with uncertainty.
The certainty is that the planet is collapsing under the weight of modern human civilization, which includes the suffering and possible extinction of countless species.
Eliot is a leader: the natural kind that has always been around, and who appears will always be for our time in the Sun.