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Yes. I've been posting on a closely related aspect of this quite a few times in the last 5 years here -- how new findings of mechanisms that affect climate, new factors and feedback loops discovered (year after year) -- almost all of them will act to increase warming speed.
We do tend to get disproportionately more responses at from those most adamant to deny something they wanted to be different than it is.... But there are many that agree and don't feel a need to post, and even a few perhaps that are learning something new.
In my experience, when an issue has two basic sides, both sides deny some things and accept other things. The question is, which things should be denied and which should be accepted, and why? Consensus is never the answer. It is merely an ad-populum argument. It always begs the question, "why is there a consensus? What evidence convinced them? And should it be denied or accepted?"
In a vacuum, sure. But a scientific consensus is not the same as you and your buddies agreeing on which bar you think is the best.
Because a large number of studies show similar or complementary results.
This can be determined by reading those studies.
That depends - do you have research that shows an alternative explanation for the same observations? Do your studies point in a different direction?
Why twice the current level? What effect would that have, how have you determined it, and how would you propose to hold it at that level without getting any higher?
How much warmer?
In parts, perhaps. It makes other parts drier though. And while global average precipitation is increasing, it's hard to say for certain if that trend will continue. While climate changes on shorter timescales than many other natural processes, those timescales are still long compared to human lifespans. We don't really know how things will end up until the situation stabilizes.
Why is it a good thing?
But what if our grants/livelihood depend on us picking a particular bar.
I dunno. I just think it could get warmer/wetter and increased CO2 could really, really help. See the video I posted a few posts up.
unfortunately this is already happening, as we are departing from the more favorable than today global climate of the past we knew in the 1970s-1990s really, into a different climate already that is less reliable for agriculture in already established great bread basket areas....(and moving agriculture to some new areas is chancy (will it work?), even though that appears necessary) and this already coming new climate is worse with worse droughts, floods and storms on average than the past average from the 70s-90s.
Actually, storm activity decreased. There is a good list of articles and discussion here: Not a Billion Dollar Disaster
Ah yes, it's all one big conspiracy.But what if our grants/livelihood depend on us picking a particular bar.
Increased greening is not necessarily beneficial. Impacts on crop yields are pretty minimal (increases in that department over time are primarily due to improvements in fertilizers, genetic modification, and irrigation), and there's even research showing that plants grown in environments higher in CO2 are actually less nutritious.
Based on your expert opinion, of course.
How are the solutions "civilization destroying"?
Actually, that is not what I said. And what about the "deniers are just frontmen for their financial backers, the oil industry"? At least the grant money is a real thing and not just a BFC*.Ah yes, it's all one big conspiracy.
Regarding your first question: Without exposing details, yes.
Wait, before reviewing anything that could be redundant information for me, that might only tell me what I already know, let me just state a general thing I already know, first:Actually, storm activity decreased. There is a good list of articles and discussion here: Not a Billion Dollar Disaster
And the good news about change is that it is very slow. Slow enough that the local culture can adapt. e.g. they can start planting orange trees and vineyards in the Sahara and Siberia.
But I posted a video a few posts up that discusses what's happening.
climate.nasa.gov
