This reminds me, what ever happened to those French protests last year? They were for a time all over the news but appear to have faded out. They began IIRC as a protest over 'CO2 taxes'.

Well it's clear that China, US and India are the top 3 polluters on this planet, so they should, like stop. Now. But they won't, because economy, so there you have it.

My response to global warming is a natural cycle is why does that matter?
Floods and Droughts are also part of the natural cycle but we don't just accept them, we try to damage control them as best we can. Why not the same with global warming, even if we are just holding off or an extra year or so?

Not that it matters, economy still takes priority over environment. We'll make our token efforts to make ourselves feel good. I know I do, but ultimately the desire for real change isn't really there yet.

Generate more C02.. The plants like it.

C02 IS NOT a pollutant.

Why don't all us humans just hold our breath until we die. That would reduce the C02 emissions more than anything else. /s

CO2 is not bad, but green house effect increases temperature. If reaching a certain point, the Gulf Stream may go away.
Then it might become really uncomfy here in Europe and plants die. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_Stream

Edit: Massive reafforestation on a globale scale could help stabilizing the effects or even lower them.
https://www.precisiontreemn.com/tips/top-10-r … fit-us-all.html

Isn't the Gulf Stream due to the rotation of the earth? That's not affected by world temperature.

cyclone3d wrote:

Generate more C02.. The plants like it.

C02 IS NOT a pollutant.

We can all agree that CO2 is not per se a pollutant, it is a part of our nature. However it is problematic that CO2 molecules as the only components in the air have the rather unsettling characteristic to store solar radiation, emit infrared radiation and reflect solar radiation from earth's surface back to earth. The increasing amount of CO2 concentration in the air leads to - what we know as - global warming. In times of increased deforestation all around the earth your advice to produce even more CO2 seems counterproductive.

Jo22 wrote:

Edit: Massive reafforestation on a globale scale could help stabilizing the effects or even lower them.
https://www.precisiontreemn.com/tips/top-10-r … fit-us-all.html

It may even be that a positive feedback loop is already established. Higher temperatures (and perhaps more CO2) are creating conditions that favor plant growth, and this may explain why there are *more* trees on Earth now than a few decades ago: https://psmag.com/environment/the-planet-now- … id-35-years-ago

Yes, the future will be hotter but also wetter. People tend to forget that one follows from the other. Hotter climate means less ice/more seawater, and together mean more evaporation and more rainfall, which means that areas of the world that currently get little rain will probably receive more.

This may lead to problems but they're not the problems most people are thinking of.