Oh nooooahh...we’re ALL going to die!
After I burn all the fossil fuels at once, I’ll sell giant air conditioners powered by nuclear reactors.
I have been bemoaning the lack of respect for truth for over 25 years, and it gets worse with every passing year...a dangerous trend, indeed.
All of the Fuel at once.....how do we do that?
The fossil fuels we ran out of ... 25 years ago.
We pay these a**holes to come up with garbage.
“Studies” are a dime a dozen. Everybody is doing them to qualify for a government grant.
When are we going to start throwing these liars in jail?
What a bunch of maroons!
BTW, glad to see you back from your hiatus.
At least the we can get those Nazi saucer bases...
Didn’t fools like these once predict that if there was a thermonuclear war, it would melt the icecaps?
Melting Antarctica would be a boon for humanity.
Just think of all the realtors kids who will have shoes for school.
The Earth doesn’t have a feedback loop, and the climate models are exactly the same as the actual climate...
When they say “all fossil fuels”, they are probably assuming that most people have no clue as to the ridiculously vast amounts of fossil fuel there are. For example, here is just the American estimated coal reserves:
http://i.imgur.com/rpgozSL.gif
In past it was said that if the US used 100% coal power, it would take us from 300 to 500 years to use up these reserves, at tremendously increased consumption.
And if all the people in the world stand on one side of Catalina Island it will tip over and sink. Woe is us. Doom is everywhere. And if a politician told the truth the heavens would open up and angels would descend singing songs of praise but we would all be deaf. We just can’t win.
If you burned it all at once, maybe! But it would take a few hundred years just to collect it all for burning!
The same condition would hold true if the Siberian or Deccan Traps (sheet lava fissures) were to restart. It is also possible that Yellowstone or Toba super-volcanos erupt. It is also possible that we could get another Chicxulub impact which might do a little more damage.
What I do not know from this writeup is that if the authors took into account offsetting effects that could potentially mitigate the full scale damage they describe? We KNOW that increased temperatures are very likely to increase cloud formation and reflect heat out into space. However this is a computation that is beyond almost all computing and modeling. You are talking about cubic miles of atmosphere from the surface to the stratosphere and all the variables that can effect the same.
Do they take into account the Antarctic isolate weather zone which, being surrounded by open water, serves to keep the continent in the deep freeze?
Do their studies assume any equilibrium factor other than clouds as the Earth does radiate heat over the night side and takes up heat over the open ocean? The longer the time span of fossil fuel use, the more these effects will modify the results.
Do they have any adjustments for using non-fossil fuels like nuclear power?
So, ASSUMING the best of intentions, were any mitigating factors thrown into this modeling? What is their ‘fudge factor’ and which case are we hearing; worst, middle or best?
Actually, they lost me when they said all fossil fuels. We can now extract more oil than ever but there are still non-recoverable reserves. So I have a lot of questions about what appears to be such a bad scenario.
