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>self-correction
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/11/25/arizona-professor-forget-climate-humans-dont-have-10-years/
I am what many would call a "climate-change alarmist." I believe that if we don't take dramatic action right now and have falling CO2 emissions within 5-10 years, it may be game over. I do not believe we have ten years to wait (which is what I though this article was going to be about).
I say that not to open that can of worms, but simply to state that even as someone who is deeply worried and sympathetic to "alarmism", I still think the guy quoted in this article is off his rocker.
We will not be extinct in 10 years. People who push this sort of claptrap are as bad as the people who paid by the fossil fuel industry to say that it isn't happening at all. In fact, I wonder if that guy *is* paid by the fossil fuel industry. The only thing as helpful to them as the belief that climate change is not happening is the belief that it is too late to do anything. The extremists on both sides are preventing us from getting to a solution (which I believe is still possible, the clock is ticking down to the final moments).
More and more in interviews with actual climate scientists who are not in the pay of the fossil fuel industry, I hear them forced to address the people tweeting fake catastrophe news as well as the deniers.
Oh my people...
