Cheaper to reduce global warming than adapt to it.

[G. David Felt]

https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1117054_nature-study-shows-its-cheaper-to-reduce-global-warming-than-to-adapt-to-it

Seems scientist are taking aim at those that say climate change is fake news. The latest study in the Journal of Nature shows it will cost about $20 trillion less to adapt by changing to green energy and EV auto's than it will to adapt to a changing planet of rising sea levels, hotter temps, etc.

To quote the study: "The study modeled the impact of historical temperature changes on GDP in 165 countries from 1960 to 2010, and extrapolated the results out to 2100, and found that the more temperature changes can be limited, the greater the economic benefits will be."

Good read if you care about helping the planet.

[Drew Dowdell]

Most likely, we are already past the point of changing the direction of the climate and will now likely need to do both.

[balthazar]

Don't worry : the rapidly compressing ocean floors due to increased water weight is offsetting the rise in ocean volume.

[G. David Felt]

7 minutes ago, balthazar said:

Don't worry : the rapidly compressing ocean floors due to increased water weight is offsetting the rise in ocean volume.

That must be why Hawaii is vomiting so much lava!  

[balthazar]

Correct; scientists are reporting that compressing ocean floors, while offsetting rapidly rising ocean levels, is putting increasing pressure on the magma layer of the Earth's core, forcing increased volcanic activity.

Volcanos indiscriminately emit frightening amounts of greenhouse gases, so despite Elon Musk's announced plan to drop titanium 'Volcano Corks' from Tesla drones flying in Ludicrious Mode, some sort of ocean floor anchoring grid must be devised, to which solar-powered prop engines can be affixxed, negating the ocean floor drop.

As soon as this theory began to make the rounds, Musk announced Tesla would accept deposits to fund shuttling excess water (now that the full ocean level rise of .0002-in would subsequently happen) to Mars via a series of interplanetary vacuum tubes, so the irrigation of marijuana fields could begin ASAP.