> whether they will actually be catastrphic or not
The consequences already are catastrophic. But the impact doesn't directly affect most people, and even if it does, the reasons can still be obscured.
The consequences already are catastrophic. But the impact doesn't directly affect most people, and even if it does, the reasons can still be obscured.
How so? BTW please don't highlight normal catastrophic things like droughts or hurricanes as those have obviously always been with us.
Even if CO2 were implicated, this issue has absolutely zero to do with the theory of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming.
So anthropogenic CO2 (we know it's anthropogenic because of satellite measurements showing seasonal variations around population centers) caused anthropogenic climate change. Even if an unknown effect serves to counteract the massive greenhouse effect of all of our CO2, temperature is only one effect of climate change. There is also changing ocean currents due to meltwater changing salinity and temperature of the ocean, shifting of precipitation to other regions creating droughts and floods, the aforementioned acidification, etc.
2013 holds the longest number of days on record between hurricane landfalls.