Some readers might ask themselves why I have not published anything for the last two months. You might even be forgiven for believing this had turn into the personal blog of Tove K.
While there might be a grain of truth in this being more of Tove's project than mine, the particular reason for my absence is seasonal. There has been a summer. And summers contain that most dreaded thing: the summer vacation. With five children running about at home, limitless daylight and temperatures perfectly suited for outdoor work, there has simply not been any meaningful time for writing.
But how is it then that Tove has been able to produce text throughout the summer? She does share my living conditions. The simple answer is that she is a better human being than me. Or at least a more disciplined writer. When the kids are all in bed and some sort of darkness finally brings the long Scandinavian summer day to an end, we are talking around 22.00 here, I am more or less finished and can only manage some book reading or cursory browsing. Tove, on the other hand, is just about to go on her second shift, in which she puts in 1-2 hours of dedicated research and writing. I do not know exactly how she does it, but I do know that I am not able to create any coherent text under those circumstances.
Luckily the bad old days are finally over. Most of the children are back in school and an air of tranquility has once again descended over the home of Wood From Eden. Hopefully I will be able to produce something readable in the weeks and months ahead. At my own stately pace of course.
I would really like to recommend Steven E Koonin's book Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters (2021) on this subject. Koonin is one of those physicist-climatologists https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_E._Koonin and he writes what Anders writes here above: That nobody knows.
A point that many climate-anxious people would make is that whatever causes the fast warming is gonna cost us a lot of plant and animal species that won't adapt. One may answer that a warmer period will birth an even larger assortment of species, ones that they've never dreamed of. Yet people prefer the ones that were present in their childhood and are not comforted at all. What would you say to appease them?
>Every suggestion that carbon dioxide emissions could mean an end to life on Earth are kind of silly knowing that life on Earth thrived in an environment with 8 times today’s carbon dioxide levels.
I don't think I've heard anyone say that global warming will mean an "end to life on Earth".
I've asked people I know who are concerned and they merely say that it will cause huge extinctions and be problematic to humanity.
Some readers might ask themselves why I have not published anything for the last two months. You might even be forgiven for believing this had turn into the personal blog of Tove K.
While there might be a grain of truth in this being more of Tove's project than mine, the particular reason for my absence is seasonal. There has been a summer. And summers contain that most dreaded thing: the summer vacation. With five children running about at home, limitless daylight and temperatures perfectly suited for outdoor work, there has simply not been any meaningful time for writing.
But how is it then that Tove has been able to produce text throughout the summer? She does share my living conditions. The simple answer is that she is a better human being than me. Or at least a more disciplined writer. When the kids are all in bed and some sort of darkness finally brings the long Scandinavian summer day to an end, we are talking around 22.00 here, I am more or less finished and can only manage some book reading or cursory browsing. Tove, on the other hand, is just about to go on her second shift, in which she puts in 1-2 hours of dedicated research and writing. I do not know exactly how she does it, but I do know that I am not able to create any coherent text under those circumstances.
Luckily the bad old days are finally over. Most of the children are back in school and an air of tranquility has once again descended over the home of Wood From Eden. Hopefully I will be able to produce something readable in the weeks and months ahead. At my own stately pace of course.
I would really like to recommend Steven E Koonin's book Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters (2021) on this subject. Koonin is one of those physicist-climatologists https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_E._Koonin and he writes what Anders writes here above: That nobody knows.
I've never yet had a positive interaction with meteorologists.
OK so choose: Köppen, Trewartha, Strahler, or Thornthwaite?
A point that many climate-anxious people would make is that whatever causes the fast warming is gonna cost us a lot of plant and animal species that won't adapt. One may answer that a warmer period will birth an even larger assortment of species, ones that they've never dreamed of. Yet people prefer the ones that were present in their childhood and are not comforted at all. What would you say to appease them?
>Every suggestion that carbon dioxide emissions could mean an end to life on Earth are kind of silly knowing that life on Earth thrived in an environment with 8 times today’s carbon dioxide levels.
I don't think I've heard anyone say that global warming will mean an "end to life on Earth".
I've asked people I know who are concerned and they merely say that it will cause huge extinctions and be problematic to humanity.