bump, for comment if I feel like it. I kinda wish someone would explain the downsides of extreme rates of change to the esteemed Dr. Happer.
LOL! The esteemed Dr. Happer was trying to do just that to the Senate! His point was that we have had many extreme climate changes on the Earth over millions of years; some more extreme than others. His point was that there were times, which were amenable to life, which had higher CO2 counts than we have now, so obviously, life, and the Earth survived them. He also made the point that warmer temperatures are not necessarily a BAD thing, because it makes for better growing conditions to help sustain human life on the planet.
“I kinda wish someone would explain the downsides of extreme rates of change to the esteemed Dr. Happer”.
Well since Dr. Happer is an atomic physicist at Princeton, I think we can assume that not much gets by the dear doctor. Now its a fact that the rate of change is the highest its ever been(2.28ppm/yr) but please explain how that is more important than the actal concentrations having been as high if not higher than 1000 ppm and way higher than they are now with life on mother earth chugging along just fine. Please give us some algorian predictions based on the rate.