Posted on 08/12/2008 7:04:55 AM PDT by Col. Bob
On a planet 4C hotter, all we can prepare for is extinctionThere's no 'adaptation' to such steep warming. We must stop pandering to special interests, and try a new, post-Kyoto strategy We need to get prepared for four degrees of global warming, Bob Watson told the Guardian last week. At first sight this looks like wise counsel from the climate science adviser to Defra. But the idea that we could adapt to a 4C rise is absurd and dangerous. Global warming on this scale would be a catastrophe that would mean, in the immortal words that Chief Seattle probably never spoke, "the end of living and the beginning of survival" for humankind. Or perhaps the beginning of our extinction.
The collapse of the polar ice caps would become inevitable, bringing long-term sea level rises of 70-80 metres. All the world's coastal plains would be lost, complete with ports, cities, transport and industrial infrastructure, and much of the world's most productive farmland. The world's geography would be transformed much as it was at the end of the last ice age, when sea levels rose by about 120 metres to create the Channel, the North Sea and Cardigan Bay out of dry land. Weather would become extreme and unpredictable, with more frequent and severe droughts, floods and hurricanes. The Earth's carrying capacity would be hugely reduced. Billions would undoubtedly die.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
80 meters? Where is all that ice hiding?.
Hey Ollie, do you know what a Red Giant is?
Guardian alert! Guardian alert! Please move to the BS shelters and don your anti-marxist masks. The danger will pass as soon as the ill-educated attention deficit journalists turn their attention to the next fad.
The Earth is cooling not warming as the link and passage below show. The liberal mainstream media has brainwashed 80% of the people into thinking the planet is getting warmer when it is really getting colder and will continue to cool:
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/06/the-sunspot-mys.html
“He also noted that the world cooled quickly between January last year and January this year, by about 0.7C.
“This is the fastest temperature change in the instrumental record, and it puts us back to where we were in 1930,” Dr Chapman noted in The Australian recently.”
In less than 120 years, every man, woman and child now living on Earth will be dead!
Woman and minorities will be hardest hit.
It is all Bush's fault. Bush and those damned SUVs.
The ice caps aren't going anywhere...
People like this are why we need to find a way to make stupidity terminal.
Earth is cooling not warming as the liberal mainstream media lies say:
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/06/the-sunspot-mys.html
“He also noted that the world cooled quickly between January last year and January this year, by about 0.7C.
“This is the fastest temperature change in the instrumental record, and it puts us back to where we were in 1930,” Dr Chapman noted in The Australian recently.”
Not even Al Gore is nuts enough to predict this much global warming. Why are these obvious loonies even being given publicity?
However, my point was that even 4oC isn't going to be an Extinction Level Event.
Of all the stupid, lame, attle-brained, idiotic writings! How can anyone be so stupid? Some people just make me want to go of the deep end...
It was 57F here on top of the Cumberland Plateau of SE Tennessee this morning. Normally, it would be in the low 70's. Our projected high today will be in the mid 80's. Normally it would be in the mid 90's. The A/C is off, the windows are open and we are lovin' it!
Years ago we allowed nature to take it's course with the stupid, and ignorant.
Now we protect, and enable them.
I'm with you. Put a bounty on stupid, and ignorant.
A free fill up with fuel for each one ought to put a dent in them.
Mega-engineering idea of the day: Why not purposely increase CO2 to the point where we actually do get some warming? Then we can add sulfates to jet fuel as needed to selectively cool the polar caps or wherever we want it colder. This is the same cloud cooling effect caused by volcanic eruptions. Based on the Earth’s history we WILL have an ice age eventually which would be davastating to humanity. The time will come when we need to control the Earth’s climate to our own advantage.
It really is sad that we have a candidate in McCain who STILL supports this crap and has already stated that the science of Global Warming is settled.
Yes, you can 'hide' the women who would buy into this nonsense. . .like Nancy Pelosi and Cindy Sheehan. ;)
At this point, for the Libs, “Global Warming” just HAS to be true, facts be damned. If it isn’t, it means (a) Al Gore is wrong or (b) Al Gore is scamming them. Neither possibility is something they want to think about very much.
Ditto here in the Philly suburbs. We ought to be suffering through multiple 90 degree days, but I had to pull the covers up last night. My poor BIL is visiting from Orlando and he's about to go into hypothermic shock.
Aren’t 4C’s breadcrumbs?
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