Comments on: AxisOfEasy Salon #17: Cognitive Conquest and Thinking the Unthinkable https://axisofeasy.com/podcast/salon-17-cognitive-conquest-and-thinking-the-unthinkable/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=salon-17-cognitive-conquest-and-thinking-the-unthinkable Rapid Coverage of a World Gone Full Cyberpunk Mon, 17 Aug 2020 21:19:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: David Barnett, Ph.D. https://axisofeasy.com/podcast/salon-17-cognitive-conquest-and-thinking-the-unthinkable/#comment-29788 Mon, 17 Aug 2020 21:19:32 +0000 https://axisofeasy.com/?post_type=podcast&p=22239#comment-29788 As a physicist, I find it very frustrating that the modellers have built CO2 into their models, but not all the other things (such as expanded land under cultivation) that have accompanied the human population explosion of the last 200 years.

Somethings to be investigated: is it mere coincidence that the “little ice age” began in the 14th century immediately after the black death halved the population of Eurasia? And the “little ice age” persisted for the 350 years until the population had recovered around the start of the 19th century.

My personal opinion is that the CO2 effect is saturated. Humans may well be contributing to climate change but most likely via land use changes. That very much changes the envronmental calculus.

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