How about a little something to lower your spirits, the physiological effects from rising CO2 include acute cognitive decline. Fortunately have not noticed cognitive decline in any human populations so far.
You clearly haven’t been to the US.
Leaded gasoline had a big impact https://today.duke.edu/2022/03/lead-exposure-last-century-shrunk-iq-scores-half-americans
CO2 I imagine very similar lower individual impact but way more widespread.
https://youtube.com/shorts/YzA272JxLjM
Sometimes I think the discussions here are due to cognitive gap instead of ideological differences.
Sometimes they are. But at least it isn’t reddit or facebook. 😆
500ppm has entered the chat
You joke but in just a few years there won’t be even teachers available, soon Gen Zs will be the only workforce in Education: idiots teaching idiots.
You mean bloodstream CO2, if not what other form?
It might just be slow enough that we don’t notice. We know that increased CO₂ indoors leads to poorer performance from studies. A widely discussed concern is that outdoor CO₂ is increasing and that this could raise indoor baseline levels, meaning buildings might reach cognitively relevant concentrations more easily unless ventilation improves. The issue is not that today’s outdoor CO₂ levels are directly toxic; rather, higher outdoor concentrations reduce the “headroom” between outdoor air and indoor levels generated by occupants.
Wonder if inline carbon capture is gonna become a thing in residential hvac
The reality is that in earth hiatory the periods with most CO2 are the ones with most life.
that’s little consolation for humans though
As soon as you don’t just look at momentary values, but the change of CO2 concentration in the atmosphere the picture is a lot less rosy. Nature can adapt, but it operates in time scales that reduce all of human civilization to a tiny blip in the history of the planet. The current change is unprecedented and is much more akin to extreme events like meteor impacts or huge volcano eruptions.
Actually looking at how nature has been and is changing right now affected by human made climate change, we are clearly steering towards an extinction event, not an era “with more life”. Extinction means death. A lot of it. It’s not the first extinction event of its kind, but catastrophic nonetheless.
Will there be a recovery after a million years or so? Sure. Will there be anything resembling human civilization? No.
