ReinyDays
Gold Member
By how much it harms people. People benefit from having a climate which is the same as the climate that human civilization evolved with. I know tree huggers don't care much about humans, but we do.
Why do deniers think "What's the ideal temperature?" is some sort of difficult gotcha question? It's not. It's a very easy question to answer
The ice core data clearly shows the agricultural revolution, and the massive expansion of civilization at that time, was experiencing temperatures 4ºC higher than the 20th Century average ... currently we're only 1ºC over this average, and we're not expected to go any higher than 2.5ºC over this average in the next 300 years ... maybe read the IPCC report, AR5, 1WG, Fig 12-5 and associated text ... and worse ... human population DOUBLED as temperatures increased this one lousy degree ... did you try to be this wrong? ...
So what is the ideal temperature? ... if it's an easy answer than fucking answer it ... to the nearest whole degree ... and show your math, you also didn't answer how we're quantifying this `idealness` factor ... and you're not quantifying this "harmfulness" factor either ...
Would Russell Wallace say doubling the population was caused by harmful effects? ... I say no, but we only have Charles Darwin's word of that ...
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If you want a philosophical discussion, start a threat over in the Philosophy forum ... I'm a carpenter, I take the murdered and butchered remains of trees and assemble them into ridiculous and embarrassing shapes ... for human comfort ... and I enjoy the sap-splattering work ... I love cats too, we should exchange recipes ... yeah, my philosophy is "Fuck you and the horse you rode in on" --- Fitzchivalry Farseer ...