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The world's carbon-dioxide problem doesn't just affect the atmosphere — the gas is starting to fill our homes, schools, and offices, too.
Indoor levels of the gas are projected to climb so high, in fact, that they could cut people's ability to do complex cognitive tasks in half by the end of the century.
That prediction comes from three scientists from the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of Pennsylvania, who presented their findings last week at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union. The study is still under peer review but available online in the repository Earth ArXiv.
The findings show that, if global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions continue to rise on their current trajectory, the concentration of CO2 in the air could more than double by 2100. Based on measurements of how humans function in spaces with that much CO2, the scientists warn, we could find ourselves scoring 50% lower on measures of complex thought by the end of the century.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 17 2020, @08:54AM (8 children)
By that time, objective truth as found by the scientific method will be the norm. And the scientific method does not need geniuses in order to function, since it is simply a set of clear rules for how to process information and propose new questions that need to be answered.
(Score: 5, Touché) by c0lo on Monday February 17 2020, @08:58AM
Imagine religion freedom beats freedom of speech, such a small switch of priority few will notice.
Then, teach the controversy squared.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 5, Insightful) by driverless on Monday February 17 2020, @11:56AM (5 children)
Given the current trend, objective truth will be whatever politics, religion, and big business decree it to be. We're already seeing this now, when a sharpie can override expert meteorologists and the government agency whose job it is to sort it out defends the quackery rather than denouncing it.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday February 17 2020, @11:37PM (4 children)
Indeed, and it ain't even slightly one-sided. There are whole great swaths of things you're not even allowed to consider studying because it wouldn't be PC.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 18 2020, @03:25AM (3 children)
You're an idiot thinking the parent was parroting your particular brand of identity politics. I mean possibly they'd agree with you, but it was a much broader brush than "PC".
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday February 18 2020, @03:34AM (2 children)
You're an idiot for thinking I assumed they agreed with me on anything at all.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 18 2020, @06:21PM (1 child)
Fair enough, but you're an idiot for saying "there are whole great swaths of things you're not even allowed to consider studying because it wouldn't be PC."
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday February 20 2020, @03:22AM
No, that's a cold, hard fact. Racial to IQ correlations? The medical causes of gender dysphoria? How strongly culture affects income? How many examples would you like?
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 18 2020, @12:50AM
"Climate change" BS is just big industriy's attempt to misdirect your focus onto the harmless plant food CO2. Meanwhile they pollute your air, food, and water full of all sorts of actual dangerous chemicals. Pollution is real, climate BS is fake.