Sentences with phrase «magically safe level»
He dismisses such targets as a «magically safe level of carbon dioxide» — a reductio ad absurdum meant to put him above the fray, allowing him to critique all those trying to avert 800 + ppm — a CO2 level he once told me is where he expects we'll end up.
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Joe Romm has predictably assailed my rejection of his «death spiral» depiction of Arctic sea ice trends, straying into discussions of melting permafrost (which is an entirely different issue laden with its own questions — one being why the last big retreat of permafrost, in the Holocene's warmest stretch, didn't have a greenhouse - gas impact) and my refusal to proclaim a magically safe level of carbon dioxide (which I discuss here).
[Aug. 9, 8:04 p.m. Updated Joe Romm has predictably assailed my view of Arctic sea ice trends and their implications, straying into discussions of melting permafrost (which is an entirely different issue laden with its own questions — one being why the last big retreat of permafrost, in the Holocene's warmest stretch, didn't have a greenhouse - gas impact) and my refusal to proclaim a magically safe level of carbon dioxide (which I discuss here).