'Cancel Culture' Comes to Science?
The entire problem with your logic is that you&#x27;re assuming that humans will not and cannot do anything at all to change carbon levels, aside from relying on natural processes.  That&#x27;s completely ridiculous.  Any attempt to fix the problem has to involve artificial actions: carbon sequestration, solar shades, etc.<p>Your entire mentality is &quot;it took X years for nature to do this, so it&#x27;ll take X years to undo it by natural processes, and oh yeah, we have to actually <i>undo</i> it so everything goes back exactly the way it was, instead of just making the end result satisfactory&quot;.  This isn&#x27;t helpful at all.  As I pointed out before, we can reduce the amount of sunlight using solar shades; we don&#x27;t actually need CO2 levels to go back to pre-industrial levels.  We just need to prevent the temperature from rising so much, while we figure out how to deal with the CO2.<p>&gt;This is equivalent to trying to remove smoke from your kitchen with a small fan while you continue to burn the food you are cooking on the frying pan. You just can&#x27;t do it.<p>Yes, you really can.  With a fan powerful enough, and a vent hood, you absolutely can.  It really doesn&#x27;t take that much, and it depends on how much smoke you&#x27;re producing, but you seem to think you need a turbojet engine to clear the air in a small kitchen from a small cooking fire, and you really don&#x27;t.<p>&gt;If you want it done faster you have to stop cooking and use a much larger fan (more energy).<p>Here&#x27;s the part you&#x27;re not getting.  The amount of energy you need to run a vent fan isn&#x27;t anywhere near the amount of energy unleashed by your cooking fire.  Even better, if you constrain the air supply, the fire burns itself out quickly, or at least is prevented from producing as much smoke.<p>&gt;It&#x27;s actually the most common sense science I&#x27;ve seen in a long time.<p>I&#x27;ve noticed that people who throw around the term &quot;common sense&quot; a lot do so because they really don&#x27;t understand things very well, and think their intuitive understanding suffices, when in fact it doesn&#x27;t.