| > Was looking at this one: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triassic–Jurassic_extinction Same problem, you're name-dropping an extinction event which has, at best, a speculative relation to climate change in general and CO2 levels in particular. Certainly you will find such events where changes in CO2 coincide with extinction, but you will also find events where they don't. > Lots of countries are looking to go from 1950's economy to modern standards, many live in rural areas that develop etc. That is true and I'm not ruling it out, but that then begs the question what difference (if any) the comparably small population of already developed countries could make by curbing their emissions. > Why do you believe CO2 tends to drop? The cycles of the past million years. After every sudden peak, CO2 levels drop... until the next peak. > The accumulated CO2 don't follow emission drops in the graph. For one, there have been no sustained drops in emissions. Secondly, these graphs have different smoothing functions applied to them. Still, they do track each other pretty closely. Around the time of WW2, you see several years of constant CO2 levels, despite increasing cumulative emissions. > Humanity is driving faster downhill without any brakes. That's the mental image you like to use. I like to use this one: https://nolanlawson.github.io/fronteers-2016/img/discostu.jp... |
