Anthropogenic activities are increasing the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere. There is mounting experimental evidence that lifetime exposur

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[–] benignintervention@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The paper is pretty clear about the chemistry and why they measured what.

[+] RumorsOfLove@lemmy.dbzer0.com -37 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

The tagline is bullshit. When I see bullshit, I shouldn't even open the article.

[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You put science in air quotes and didn't bother to look at the 'science'

This couldn't be more on brand

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They called the abstract a 'tagline'

[–] RumorsOfLove@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

'the attention grabber'

i had high blood pressure. i only managed to understand the following.

CARBON DIOXIDE OVERLOAD TOXIC ATMOS FEAR IN 50 YEARS-

50 years from now is uncharted territory. Chemistry has limited prediction power.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 months ago

That's not what an abstract is.

And just because you failed to understand something doesn't represent an inadequacy on the article's part.

It's quite demonstrable that atmospheric CO2 levels have been increasing over the decades, and that the increase is accelerating rather than slowing down.

Data that concrete can easily be extrapolated. "If we continue polluting at the current rate, the air will be unbreathable in X amount of years" is not a wild claim.

And changes in blood chemistry that are correlated with atmospheric CO2 level increases are a valid means of studying how much pollution humanity can tolerate before it has catastrophic effects.