Posted on 03/31/2020 5:50:25 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot
Humans don’t easily grasp the concept of exponential growth, but it’s exactly why coronavirus has gotten so hard to manage—and why climate change could too. 
The coronavirus pandemic—sadly—has introduced or reintroduced many people to the concept of an exponential curve, in which a quantity grows at an increasing rate over time, as the number of people contracting the virus currently is doing. It is this curve that so many of us are trying to “flatten” through social distancing and other mitigating measures, small and large.
(snip)
It’s also how climate change works. And if there’s any silver lining in this mess, it’s that the coronavirus pandemic is teaching us a valuable lesson about the perils of ignoring destructive processes—and perhaps even larger, longer-term disasters—that increase exponentially.
(snip) (Authors' CO2 "exponential" growth) 
(snip)
Taking a lesson from our flat-footed response to the coronavirus pandemic, we can no longer delay aggressive actions to halt and reverse what otherwise will be inevitable pandemic-like crises arising from climate change. Already, tipping points have been reached: Human populations and cultures are being devastated, and many species are becoming extinct.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
It’s the Chewbacca Defense.
Pollutico is garbage.
Why am I so confused? Perhaps it’s because I’ll be 77 in two months. sheesh!
My point is that the hysterics think we're all gonna die if we don't do this or that. That's not true...something usually kicks in to stop the lilys. The question is whether or not vaporizing the service economy was worth it.
The real truth is, we are all going to die, no matter what precautions we take. Sooner or later, preferably later.
Joe? Shouldn’t you be working on your campaign?
Okay. Where are the palm trees and alligators in Minnesota? And we were supposed to have all the coastlines under 20 ft of water by 2015. NOT!
Those are in the Arkansas Ozarks. Don’t you know nothing?
Yeah, that's science for sure! Ya grabs an apple, see; then ya grabs an orange; then ya tells the audience to imagine that the one, is the other. Or at the very least, it conceivably COULD be.
Or, “When you are a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”
Or they might be like obummer and not believe it.
Well, yea...the logistic function isn’t asymptotic.
FreedomPoster wrote: “Go to CDC.gov and search for “Climate change”. Then Transgender. Then Diversity. Look at the number of hits you get. Gain some understanding why the CDC and the national health establishment was so ill-prepared for a pandemic, which is a primary reason for them to exist. Those other things? Not so much in my mind. Pure SJW political pandering and electioneering using the public’s money.”
You left out HIV. When AIDS first came on the scene, CDC hyped the unfounded dangers of spread into the heterosexual population.
Someone who taught technical writing told me that this was mostly propaganda because those in his CDC class told him that all grant (most worked on grants) funds were contingent upon showing an AIDS linkage, ie, if you wanted to research tooth decay then you had to show how it caused AIDS. These students told him this was always true at CDC.
CDC is driven more by politics than by science.
Trust me, the eco wankers do NOT want the alternative to their perceived warming crap. And, as far as some climageddonists touting the cleansing of the erf since the great covid slow/shut down...... If “it” cleaned so much stuff up in, what, 2 or 3 weeks, how bad was “it” really? Have any of these assclowns looked at some abandoned sites anywhere? Nature doesn’t waste a lot of time reclaiming things. Fookin’ idjits! Stay well.
Or the cynics in me -
People ‘like obummer’ want other dummies to believe that garbage and move out of their way, so they themselves could scoop up property cheap.
Funny how someone is stupid enough to publish this article as the warmer Summer months are being eagerly anticipated a a potential halt to the virus...
So nice try, Herr Goebbels. But this is one Big Lie that ain't selling.
I like the analogy. Exponential growth can be applied to anything. In fact, I believe that the growth of bullsh*t is exponential as well. Soon, we will be covered over from the networks and cable. That is really scary, because BS and Global Warming-cooling (Climate change in other words) are both real and could get out of hand....They have both been with us for millenia.
some 'climate' search results:
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.