Suffering because of climate change?

[Cyclone]

I'm not sure of the relevance of your first point and I think your second point is a bit defeatist.

 

There's three possibilities looking at this simply:

 

Don't do anything about climate change. Climate change happens due to human activity and kills many, economies collapse etc

Don't do anything about climate change, climate change doesnt happen we're all happy and no cost to world economies

Do do something about climate change, climate change doesn't happen we're all happy but there is a cost to world economies.

 

It is wise to risk the first merely to avoid the third?

 

There are more than that

 

Do do something about climate change, go way over what is actually required, climate change doesn't happen, but the entire western world is impoverished for several generations.

 

Do do something about climate change, turns out it wasn't anthropogenic anyway and climate change carries on and happens anyway, oh, and we're all impoverished for several generations.

 

Or even do do something, turns out we don't really understand and we actually make the problem worse.

[unbeliever]

I do agree in green taxes, because they mean people may use cars less, and home insulation saves people money, and the fewer resources that we use, the better it is for biodiversity which brings great joys and helps keep the food chain stable.

 

CO2 has nothing to do with biodiversity.

[El Cid]

CO2 has nothing to do with biodiversity.

 

You need to think a little deeper.

 

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Thousands of people have been killed by extreme weather so far this year and now scientists fear a weather event will cause droughts, wildfires, flooding, landslides and food shortages.

 

Australian scientists have warned of a “substantial” El Nino effect that started in May.

 

The phenomenon,which only happens every few years, is still in its early stages but has the potential to cause extreme weather around the world, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.

 

El Nino is the name given to above-normal temperatures in the Pacific Ocean that have the potential to cause devastating conditions around the world.

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/thousands-of-people-killed-by-extreme-weather-so-far-in-2015-as-climate-change-feared-to-bring-more-heatwaves-hurricanes-and-floods-in-future-10345883.html

Edited August 5, 2015 by El Cid

[unbeliever]

You need to think a little deeper.

 

---------- Post added 05-08-2015 at 09:09 ----------

 

Thousands of people have been killed by extreme weather so far this year and now scientists fear a weather event will cause droughts, wildfires, flooding, landslides and food shortages.

 

Australian scientists have warned of a “substantial” El Nino effect that started in May.

 

The phenomenon,which only happens every few years, is still in its early stages but has the potential to cause extreme weather around the world, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.

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El Nino is the name given to above-normal temperatures in the Pacific Ocean that have the potential to cause devastating conditions around the world.

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/thousands-of-people-killed-by-extreme-weather-so-far-in-2015-as-climate-change-feared-to-bring-more-heatwaves-hurricanes-and-floods-in-future-10345883.html

 

What does this have to do with CO2 levels?

El Nino is weather, not climate.

[El Cid]

What does this have to do with CO2 levels?

El Nino is weather, not climate.

 

The thread is about the consequences of climate change.

 

You accept that there has been warming, do you accept that warming causes more precipitation and extreme weather?