Nearly 50 per cent of Canadians say they can’t afford meat
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"Greenhouse effect is produced by greenhouse gasses (GHG) like water vapor, carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxides (NxO) and ozone (O3)."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5837998/
Ok well since water vapour is the main greenhouse gas/effect.
Ok fine. The greenhouse effect is an important part of keeping the earth habitable. Greenhouse gas in and of itself is neither good nor bad. It’s just a natural phenomenon.
Wether there’s “too much” or “too little” of it is the issue, too much, and you get a warmer earth. Too little and earth is colder. Ok so: what’s so bad about a warmer earth? Geological history shows us past very warm periods happened with abundant life nothing terrible was a result. What’s so bad about a colder earth? Well we all know how that turned out. Ice ages.
Mostly the people who have died and will die from the storms, fires, heat waves, floods, droughts, starvation from crop failures...
Don't take my word for it. Do your own research.
Are we talking localised crop failures or global record crop failures in average?
Because the global average main crop tonnage has increased from aboit 1.5Bn tonnes in ‘88 to about 3bn today.
Re droughts and storms. Relatively little now. Tree ring data going back to the 12th century show droughts back then to be way worse than the piffling amounts now. ( ref Tree-ring reconstructed megadroughts over North America since A.D. 1300 Stahl et al 2007) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-006-9171-x )
And you will stake your reputation as an expert in the field on the prediction that going forward climate change will not disrupt this steady increase.
When there were less than half a million humans on the planet, as opposed to almost 8 billion, most of whom depend on food from far away. You would argue that there is no chance of that production & supply chain being affected by unreliable weather.
No I’m not saying that water vapour is bad, it’s the main ‘greenhouse gas’. But also that the greenhouse effect isn’t a bad thing. We need water vapour and an even higher co2 level. As you say, co2 is an amazing gas of life! More co2 please!
If you honestly believe that CO2 in the atmosphere is not contributing to climate change then we might be too far apart to have a conversation. But I'm curious: is any attempt made to prevent the CO2 you're talking about being released into the atmosphere?