Friday, December 5, 2008

A case for apathy

Denying that humanity is contributing to global warming is pretty ridiculous at this point. There's quite a bit of an evidence gap and deniers spend more time denying than bringing forth actual proof. It's like debating creationists at this point.

But assuming what we do at this point will have any great effect is probably wrong. Imagine the earth's climate as a giant metaphorical balloon. putting air in and taking air out will return the balloon to its original size, but it's not instant. The cause effect equation is not simple, it's a complicated equation


Ya. Enjoy Adam. Anyways, pressure change isn't instant, neither is heat transfer or gas exchange or anything like that.

The current hypothesis is that if we quit outputting carbon into the atmosphere today, the environment wouldn't have noticeable decrease for hundreds of years. Yikes. Anyways I just heard this today I'll post a more coherent and hopefully more optimistic conclusion when I'm less lazy.

6 comments:

Graham said...

I dont feel like doing this post anymore because I don't care enough about global warming to waste a post and my limited mathematical abilities on it.

Unknown said...

i think NA should start buying enviromentally friendly factories. and then we can sell all of our polluting factories to africa and solve the poverty problem.

Gordon said...

This just in... Many western countries are no longer industrialized countries but have become de-industrialized countries in an effort to support industrializing countries with new industries

Graham said...

Name them and prove it citing their GDP and proof of support to other countries.

Graham said...

And if you claim GDP's are falsified by their governments I swear to god I will burst through this computer screen and burn down your apartment because they're independently verified and provable for every country that doesn't start with ir-

Gordon said...

I don't live in an apartment - hah!

And I could name at least 20 countries, but they all start with ir-