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No, I said:

And also: "And if reglaciation is going to happen in the next few centuries, why worry about warming or stop CO2 emissions? — boethius I would say bec...

And this was mentioned: "If we change the earths atmosphere composition even more, we can exit an ice-age significantly (lose all year-round ice in th...

And then I said: "Models show that at present levels of CO2, reglaciation will begin somewhere between 500 and 3000 years. If we burn all the availabl...

And then I said, "For decades now, scientists have known, just from looking at the geological record, that the reglaciation should start sometime in t...

No, I said this: "A poster had suggested that climate change is simple and easily understood by referencing the laws of thermodynamics. That's not tru...

It means change is ahead no matter what we do. Civilization emerged during a relatively serene period. It's first big test will be whatever happens in...

I'm pretty sure I understand. He has since ceased the aggressive posts. We can drop it for now, and let this be taken back up the next time he does it...

Do you think that's a fair assessment of what I did?

The conversation evolved such that a poster had commented that climate change is easy science. I brought up the fact that we're in an ice age to expla...

Models show that at present levels of CO2, reglaciation will begin somewhere between 500 and 3000 years. If we burn all the available coal, it becomes...

I was talking about climate change. The OP is: Climate Change (General Discussion) ?

This is part of the discussion: "For decades now, scientists have known, just from looking at the geological record, that the reglaciation should star...

There is a delay from CO2 emission to associated temperature increase. Maybe that's what you were thinking about?

Wow. This is wrong. Wikipedia lets us down

I think it's very much on topic. As I said, we've known about this since the 1980s. It just doesn't come up much because it's centuries away. I would ...

I don't even know what that means. It would probably be prudent to put the brakes on CO2 emissions, like completely.

It's possible. If we burn all the coal we can access it will become more likely. That would take around 200 years.

We're in an interglacial period of a large scale ice age. Specifically, we're at the end of an interglacial awaiting reglaciation.

For decades now, scientists have known, just from looking at the geological record, that the reglaciation should start sometime in the next few centur...

It's a fact about the climate. We're talking about the climate. Problem?

Didn't know that. Reference?

No need to get testy. A poster had suggested that climate change is simple and easily understood by referencing the laws of thermodynamics. That's not...

The climate changes drastically from time to time. Changes in CO2 levels have been the main culprit in numerous climate change events in the past.

Which one?

You're attributing someone else's words to me.

It's not clear whether increased CO2 will take us out of the present ice age or not. That's the standard scientific perspective at this time. Global w...

Plan your work work your plan. Definitely. Just remember that as long as you work in line with inner imperatives, mountains will seem like molehills i...

I just sort of quietly told my dog to "stop" and she stopped and walked away. Isn't it funny how we never think much about how that kind of communicat...

I guess mapping could be a kind of explanation. Your intellect is the only part of you that can ponder whether it has limits. It's the only part that ...

Exactly.

Yes. Russell's acquaintance theory says that you know what "blue" means from direct acquaintance with it, not from looking it up in a dictionary, so e...

We are in an ice age guys. Get yourself up to speed.

Yes. Will the intellect be satisfied with that kind of explanation, though? I guess I'm saying that the intellect will feel stymied by being unable to...

This is raised an an objection to Russell's 'aquaintance' theory of meaning. It's not considered to be a problem for Wittgenstein because he emphasize...

True. They do have an amazing capacity to ignore things though.

Do you and your friends do this impromptu in the middle of the street sometimes?

Thank you, Ludwig. You're probably right

So he opted to express 'what it's like' from the first person view, right? From what vantage point are you making this observation? Where are you stan...

Here's the quote: Wittgenstein on Heidegger, from 1929: I can very well think what Heidegger meant about Being and Angst. Man has the drive to run up ...

I'll try. :grin:

I think the intellect resists accepting any limits. The intellect says you'd have to have a vantage point beyond humanity to know that it's limited. I...

Wittgenstein warned that Heidegger was trying to do something that can't be done.

I just meant that the average person didn't know. It was mostly science nerds who knew. Except in France where everyone was a damned climatologist at ...

This came from imagining that I'm talking to the human intellect. I asked if it's capable of explaining anything. It said under ideal conditions, like...

I'm trying to think of a kind of explanation that's not about relationships to other things. Would breaking a thing down into parts and relating the p...

Could be. I hadn't thought of that.

Whatever.

Oh. No, it's not relevant to that. CO2 footprint is relative to wealth. Few are poor by choice