Comment 26509

By Scientist (anonymous) | Posted September 10, 2008 at 22:06:10

Whatever, you clearly have no idea how science works (just like you have no idea what Newton's Third Law actually means). You don't think scientists understand secondary, tertiary etc. effects? That's what a complex system IS, its why they need computers to help them model this stuff. Its what this documentary movie is about (which BTW is quite well done even though it's by an arts guy), the secondary and tertiary effects of global warming, like thawing Siberian permafrost and reduced albedo from melting ice and such.

See, STABLE systems are marked by negative feedback loops, what you're clumsily trying to describe with your inept and inappropriate analogy to Newton's 3rd. Changes are self-limiting because they produce an effect that tends to reduce the change.

With global warming, we're looking at what happens when systems become UNSTABLE. Suddenly negative feedback loops don't work any more and we get dramatic runaway effects like the permafrost melt. Scientists aren't saying "X, Y, Z is going to happen" all neatly tied in a ribbon. They're saying "When this and that tipping point is reached all bets are off - the system becomes chaotic."

If anything, the models they made in the past UNDERESTIMATED just how chaotic things will get as we reach these tipping points in positive feedback loops. It's actually worse, things are getting bad FASTER than they originally thought, as they've discovered more of these positive feedback loops.

While you're sitting there with your ignorance of what scientists are saying and your horribly inept misunderstanding of even basic physics, shrugging your shoulders and saying, 'Ah it'll work itself out', the people who ACTUALLY HAVE A CLUE are scared shitless. We're literally heading into uncharted territory with our entire planetary climate and ecosystem.

Doesn't that make you the least bit uncomfortable?

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