ttystikk
Well-Known Member
To your other point of forced global cooling by volcano or nuclear war being catastrophic... Well, I agree.there are too many countries whose governments refuse to admit "global warming" is real...they argue semantics while the sea level rises...right now i don't think you could get enough of them doing anything to make it effective on a global scale....and what would we be able to do? setting off nuclear explosions seems a very very poor choice, and probably not very effective on a global scale. triggering volcanoes seems to be equally risky and ineffective. if you somehow set one off big enough to eject enough material to lower temperatures, it would cause incredible damage locally, and agriculture would suffer for years. i just really don't think we can do a damn thing except try to stop contributing to the problem, and put efforts into dealing with it in the future.
I guess the best that can be said for such an option is to decide if humanity wants a 'small' catastrophe we can plan for or a larger one we can't avoid.
The climate effects we've seen so far are the result of just ONE DEGREE CELSIUS of warming. Imagine what 4 times that much will do.