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On a planet 4C hotter, all we can prepare for is extinction
The Guardian ^ | Oliver Tickell

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.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; climatechange; environment; globalwanking; globalwarming; hysteria; theskyisfalling; wereallgonnadie
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To: Col. Bob

Do more research!
So called global warming stopped in 1998 and we have lost the the increase from the nineties.

Next on your list of scare tactics: NEW ICE AGE!


41 posted on 08/12/2008 8:42:55 AM PDT by BillT (God said it, that settles it whether I believe it or not! (Bible rules))
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To: Col. Bob

When will these Global Cooling deniers get a clue?


42 posted on 08/12/2008 9:04:58 AM PDT by DelphiUser ("You can lead a man to knowledge, but you can't make him think")
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To: Joe Brower

4C??? Glad we don’t use that silly metric system here in AMERICA!!! We’re safe!


43 posted on 08/12/2008 9:13:28 AM PDT by highnoon (God Bless our Troops.....especially our snipers!)
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To: Col. Bob

Billions would undoubtedly die.

Hint: They are going to die anyway.


44 posted on 08/12/2008 9:16:27 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Col. Bob
in the immortal words that Chief Seattle probably never spoke, “the end of living and the beginning of survival”

What would you call this, a pseudo quote, quasi quote?

45 posted on 08/12/2008 9:19:29 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Col. Bob

Anyone see sarcasm? Anyone? Bueller?


46 posted on 08/12/2008 9:22:45 AM PDT by BruceysMom (My heart is in Rock Springs.)
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To: JennysCool

Good point. Plus, I talk to people who just love there to be something *exciting* to worry about. They are often the same people who are really into conspiracy theories and such.

susie


47 posted on 08/12/2008 10:00:15 AM PDT by brytlea (Obama--Jimmy Carter's Second Term)
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To: BillT

Well, THAT will help my hot flashes!


48 posted on 08/12/2008 10:15:46 AM PDT by brytlea (Obama--Jimmy Carter's Second Term)
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To: darth
Mega-engineering idea of the day: Why not purposely increase CO2 to the point where we actually do get some warming?

It's not nice to fool with Mother Nature!

Besides, who would underwrite the liability insurance coverage for such a project? A little "oopsie" could really be a bad day for us all.

Regards,
GtG

PS I seem to recall a suggestion that we spread soot on the icecaps to encourage heating/melting. It seemed like a dumb idea to me 'cuz the icecaps are generally in the dark for six months at a time, and when the sun is up it barely clears the horizon.

49 posted on 08/12/2008 10:22:20 AM PDT by Gandalf_The_Gray (I live in my own little world, I like it 'cuz they know me here.)
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To: Col. Bob; proud_yank; FrPR; enough_idiocy; rdl6989; IrishCatholic; Normandy; Delacon; ...
 




Beam me to Planet Gore !

50 posted on 08/12/2008 11:02:32 AM PDT by steelyourfaith
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To: Issaquahking
"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..."

Hey! They're actually doin us all a favor!!! I heard on the radio this morning about some poll that shows that people believe in GW, but are largely unconcerned about it. Probably because "of all the stupid, lame, attle-brained, idiotic writings!"

51 posted on 08/12/2008 11:51:21 AM PDT by SierraWasp (I'm not against the environment, just GovernMental EnvironMentalism!!! (our new state religion))
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To: Col. Bob

52 posted on 08/12/2008 12:32:10 PM PDT by pabianice
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To: kjam22
When I was a kid in school (a long time ago) the teaching was that the earth was headed for another “ice age”. We were all gonna freeze to death.

I recall that as well, and I find it intriguing (not) that the "answer" was the same back then, as it is today. Massive Socialism and strict government control over every facet of life.

Odd, isn't it?

the infowarrior

53 posted on 08/12/2008 12:37:40 PM PDT by infowarrior
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To: Col. Bob

Maybe we should ask the government to step in and save us from climate change!


54 posted on 08/12/2008 12:41:35 PM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: Col. Bob

Bump for later.


55 posted on 08/12/2008 2:40:12 PM PDT by goldfinch
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To: SierraWasp
Eight degrees hotter? Extinction?

Nope. I would put the new furnace on hold and go for the central air first...

I would plant a much wider variety of fruit trees...

I would grow more tomatoes...

... and maybe a small tobacco crop to horrify the neighbors--and then use it all to make bug spray the next year.

Wow! just think of the things I could grow if suddenly I lived in zone 4!

Including a formidable briar hedge to keep the migrating nits from lalaland out...

56 posted on 08/12/2008 2:45:29 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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To: Smokin' Joe; AuntB; Issaquahking

An Osage Orange hedge would work really, really well! Any migrating nits that somehow manage to git through that (which I seriously doubt), you can pitch them softball size “oranges” at ‘em. (they ain’t soft, by the way)(ouch!!!)


57 posted on 08/12/2008 2:54:24 PM PDT by SierraWasp (I'm not against the environment, just GovernMental EnvironMentalism!!! (our new state religion))
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To: SierraWasp

I’m familliar with the osage orange—and its hardness, from my youth...in a warmer clime.(8^D)


58 posted on 08/12/2008 3:49:31 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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To: Rurudyne; 75thOVI; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aristotleman; Avoiding_Sulla; ...
We must stop pandering to special interests, and try a new, post-Kyoto strategy
Yes. It's called Drill, Drill, Drill. And stop funding "research" that is really just cover fire for the global warming hoax.
 
Catastrophism
 
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59 posted on 08/13/2008 12:09:08 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile hasn't been updated since Friday, May 30, 2008)
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To: Col. Bob
What an Idiot this clown is.

4C increase - yeah right - -Just when we get the real deal that we've actually been on a documented cooling trend over the past decade.

60 posted on 08/13/2008 4:30:39 AM PDT by roaddog727 (BS does not get bridges built - the funk you see is the funk you do)
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