Posted on 01/05/2018 9:58:14 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The globe is set to start drying out dramatically if global warming isn't stopped.
That's the message from a new environmental study published by the journal Nature Climate Change .
Over 25% of Earth will start experiencing the effects of "aridificaiton" by the year 2050 if humans don't meet the changes proposed by the Paris climate agreement .
The study claims that if the Earth's average temperature goes up by two degrees Celsius over the next 32 years, the planet will start to become a desert.
“Our research predicts that aridification would emerge over about 20-30 percent of the world’s land surface by the time the global mean temperature change reaches 2ºC," said Manoj Joshi, the lead researcher of the study.
"But two-thirds of the affected regions could avoid significant aridification if warming is limited to 1.5ºC (34.7 degrees Fahrenheit)."
The study goes on to point out that reducing greenhouse gas emissions will keep global warming under the 2 degree threshold and reduce the likelihood of aridification.
(Excerpt) Read more at mirror.co.uk ...
I really hope this doesn't happen. I'm just now staring to feel like we've recovered from the mass starvations in the 70s and 80s due to overpopulation and the oceans that died in the 90s.
But we don’t know how much snow will fall tonight.
Oh Noes.....that just means its more globull warming than we originally thought.
Yep harsh winters are more signs of climate change.
Oh the stupidity of it all.
2018
So there won’t be more water vapor in the atmosphere from all the extra water surface created by rising seas?
And if there were no acid in rain, nothing would grow. Acid naturally occurs in rain. Whatever human activity adds is negligible.
I would not be surprised to see more arid conditions worldwide in my lifetime. But - due to increased global cooling which traps more moisture in the polar ice shields.
Based on previous cycles we are past due for a period of major glaciation - the mile thick over Chicago kind. That will trap a LOT of moisture. And we’ll have to consider building a wall across the land bridge between Alaska and Russia.
I’ll bet things like building massive tracts of houses in the desert and diverting scarce water to them, or selling water resources to Nestle is more likely the problem.
Yep, Van Denton has been going on about how we’re going to set an all-time record for the longest below-freezing cold snap.
You know that if you’re alive in 2050, there will be crickets on how wrong they were.
Or if they do answer:
‘science is ever evolving and changing’
so like weather reports, we can be wrong and still rob the public.
Yep, I saw that and wondered, too.
You can have higher temps and more moisture in the air, or lower temps and less moisture in the air, but you can't have both.
Guess that makes us Science Deniers, or something.
“...won’t happen until 3000...”
Actually, it’ll be 35 years after there’s no more ice in the Arctic.
The Earth will become a dessert? I choose chocolate.
Oh, desert! Never mind.
“And, even worse. No more chocolate bushes by 2025 if we don’t straighten up and fly right. Oh, and mind our P’s and Q’s.”
The marshmallow trees are going extinct even faster. Smores will soon be a thing of the past.
Too bad Prince is no longer around. He could re-release his hit, 1999, and call it 2049!
There’s a link in the article which claims “World could RUN OUT of chocolate by 2050 as cacao plants struggle to cope with effects of climate change”
NOW they’ve got my attention.
Of course, I knew without looking that Manoj Joshi was a faculty member at the University of East Anglia, the world epicenter of the whole climate change fraud.
A desert? I guess the doomsayers don’t remember what the earth was like when it was much warmer. Guess they’ve never seen Jurassic Park. The age(s) of the dinosaurs were sweatboxes. We are in an interglacial period.
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