Posted on 08/10/2018 2:23:07 PM PDT by Simon Green
And in Lovelock’s view, the Earth’s self-regulating system is seriously out of whack, thanks largely to our 150-year fossil fuel binge. “You could quite seriously look at climate change as a response of the system intended to get rid of an irritating species: us humans,” Lovelock told me in 2007 when I visited him at his house in Devon, England, for a profile in Rolling Stone. “Or at least cut them back to size.”
By 2020, droughts and other extreme weather will be commonplace. By 2040, the Sahara will be moving into Europe, and Berlin will be as hot as Baghdad. Atlanta will end up a kudzu jungle. Phoenix will become uninhabitable, as will parts of Beijing (desert), Miami (rising seas) and London (floods). Food shortages will drive millions of people north, raising political tensions. “The Chinese have nowhere to go but up into Siberia,” Lovelock says. “How will the Russians feel about that? I fear that war between Russia and China is probably inevitable.” With hardship and mass migrations will come epidemics, which are likely to kill millions. By 2100, Lovelock believes, the Earth’s population will be culled from today’s 6.6 billion to as few as 500 million, with most of the survivors living in the far latitudes – Canada, Iceland, Scandinavia, the Arctic Basin.
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Sweet, can’t wait.
So sick of an incredibly large portion of humanity.
So we’re back to global warming then, since we’re having a hot Summer?
Everyone and thing at the Equator will burst into flames and the water will boil causing clouds which will cause cooling and around and around we go
Well, I should be in a cryogenic state by then....
I’m not a climatologist. “What is whack?” - Steven Wright
There won’t be a Rolling Stoned around in 2100 to apologize.
And yet they can’t predict the weather accurately 3 days from now.
Great. So the population explosion will no longer be a problem.
Stop the presses! The brain trust at Rolling Stone has spoken!
Life thrives in hot, humid environments. Life dies in cold, dry climates. We can only hope that our global warming can stave off the ice age enough to give us time to build warp drive.
They may be right.
Here’s a guy who predicts that by about 2050 the surface of the Sun will have cooled about 1800 degrees C and there will be very little liquid fresh water on the surface of the Earth:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfDN53ykEqw
These same liberals that believe in climate change also believe in open borders.
IF this were to happen the northern areas would be quite inhabitable so many of the 6.6B or so would be be welcomed open-armed into the habitable areas, right?
[ They may be right.
Here’s a guy who predicts that by about 2050 the surface of the Sun will have cooled about 1800 degrees C and there will be very little liquid fresh water on the surface of the Earth:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfDN53ykEqw ]
Ice ages are FAR WORSE than a few degrees + inthe global temps.
Oh, bullsh*t.
Jan Wenner ate the planet?
Unlike the last 2.5 billion years when droughts and other extreme weather was commonplace.
The two degree change their worst case predicts would make the planet uninhabitable? Any species that delicate deserves to die off.
Well, so far not a single predictions by these Luddites has ever come true. Not a one.
The 1967 book, Population Bomb, missed every prediction. According to the Hippies that wrote that one we shouldn’t even be alive today because we all starved several decades ago.
It never stops.
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