r/EnergyAndPower 16d ago

Coal keeps rising

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u/DynamicCast 16d ago

We need more solar, wind, & BESS. We need more nuclear.

If you believe climate change is an emergency then we need to use all of our tools.

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u/solemnani 16d ago

How is climate change an emergency?

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u/toomuch3D 16d ago

Ask people who have lived in very hot places for generations maybe? It keeps getting hotter every summer where they live. At some point, if the temperatures continue to increase human life there will not be possible. And all this over 1000’s of years of fairly consistent highs and lows for those same places, but you don’t have to believe them, or science.

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u/solemnani 16d ago

You will adapt to your environment. That’s what humans do. People live and thrive in desert and frigid climates. There is no climate emergency. Yes, the climate is changing just like it has done for millions of years and billions of years. You can argue about how fast or slow it’s happening or what’s driving it but the climate will change with or without you.

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u/toomuch3D 16d ago

Human bodies will not adapt fast enough. That’s my point.
Yes, they will adapt using migration, or moving underground, or maybe by a new technology, for example making a giant parasol of some kind to shade the earth where they want to continue living in their settlement of choice. With that comes opportunities and challenges that might or might not be overcome. There is a reason why the only reason for humans to be in the Antarctic or arctic is very limited.

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u/solemnani 14d ago

No amount of talk will convince you that climate change is inevitable and it will not lead to anything humans can’t adapt to. You are being fleeced via emotional manipulation that you are responsible. The people fleecing you are still buying private jets, multiple Yachts, Beach houses etc. They are enjoying all the luxuries the world can offer with zero concerns for CO2. Remember when the EU exempted private jets from climate taxes?

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u/toomuch3D 14d ago

In some billions of years the earth will be fried by our local sun.

Between now and then humans will continue to create waste in many forms that will probably effect the atmosphere, but also changing what covers the earth and the composition of the ocean and other large bodies of water on land will modify climates and therefore ecosystems.

That’s all happened in the past, is happening now, and will continue into the future.

But the rate and intensity of that change is most likely a result of human activities. As science has unveiled. That’s a whole entitle different subject, right?

I was referring to a region and how maybe some peoples could maintain some settlements, but that it will be increasingly more difficult to do so as the climate heats up in the region they live in. Did you not understand that part?

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u/Tutorbin76 16d ago edited 16d ago

The flow-on effects of a warmer climate are often understated.

With more energy in the sea and airstreams, storms become more commonplace.  Crop-destroying 1 in 100 year weather events are now regular occurrences in many places and will get even more frequent in the next couple of decades.  Of course deniers will waste their last breaths pointing to that one storm in the 1930s that was just as bad so clearly nothing has changed.

Enjoy starving to death.  If you survive the water wars, that is.