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That will be fine. We can design around that sort of thing. What we should be looking for is not ways to stop it, but ways to take advantage of it. There will be dislocations, but there will certainly be some magnificent new opportunities. Nature is funny that way.
The climate is changing. Mankind probably is contributing. NO ONE knows at what rate this change is occurring and if it will offset the unusual low energy output from the Sun. Maybe this is a regular cycle that has been occurring for billions of years? The Sun's cycle coincides with a warming on Earth? Would make sense and would be SOP for the creator who seems to have thought of everything...even liberal outrage has probably been accounted for LOL.
What Im worried about is the climate refugee crisis we’d have if this all takes place. Thats another thing people fail to see. Many places will become inhospitable for hunans to live.
What Im worried about is the climate refugee crisis we’d have if this all takes place. Thats another thing people fail to see. Many places will become inhospitable for hunans to live.
And that is why we need the wall and the military on the border.
Every day the local weather gives the record high for the day. It is almost always from 1953, a few times it has been from 2011. None of the record temps have been from the last 5 years.
That will be fine. We can design around that sort of thing. What we should be looking for is not ways to stop it, but ways to take advantage of it. There will be dislocations, but there will certainly be some magnificent new opportunities. Nature is funny that way.
If they were right about to invent fusion power, I'd feel more inclined to agree...but they've been claiming fusion power is right around the corner for decades.
Now, if we never invent fusion power, what are you going to do a hundred years from now when Earth's temperature is increasing by a higher percentage than it was this century...because without fusion power or nations working to build up more clean technologies, we're going to become way, way more industrialized eighty years from now.
The risk of that is stuff like the following:
"Over the next 100 years, the climate will warm as greenhouses gases increase in our atmosphere," says Andrew Barton, oceanographer and associate research scholar at Princeton University. As the climate warms, Barton says, so will the oceans—bad news for phytoplankton, since warm waters contain less oxygen, and therefore less phytoplankton, than cooler areas. Already, gradually warming ocean waters have killed off phytoplankton globally by a staggering 40 percent since 1950. https://psmag.com/environment/global...kton-in-danger
Phytoplankton provide a major food foundation in the ocean. They provide 50-80% of our planet's oxygen. They also are great for getting rid of C02, as species go. They absorb it. They die. They fall to the bottom of the ocean, and the C02 basically disappears with them.
I've read that some species of phytoplankton can do well in warm waters in lab tests...but those are lab tests. We're engaging in one heck of a risky experiment, and they might mutate in ways that aren't good for us.
also:
Parts of China, India and the eastern US could all become too warm in summer for people to lose heat by sweating - rendering such areas effectively uninhabitable.
Steven Sherwood, a climate expert at Yale University, told a global warming conference in Copenhagen that people will not be able to adapt to a much warmer climate as well as previously thought.
The physiological limits of the human body will begin to render places impossible to support human life if the average global temperature rises by 7C on pre-industrial levels, he said.
"There will be some places on Earth where it would simply be impossible to lose heat," Sherwood said. "This is quite imaginable if we continue burning fossil fuels. I don't see any reason why we wouldn't end up there."
The 2007 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said that average temperatures could rise by 6C this century if greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise at current rates. Scientists at the Copenhagen Climate Congress this week said the IPCC may have underestimated the scale of the problem, and that emissions since 2000 have risen much faster than expected.
Sherwood told the conference: "Seven degrees would begin to create zones of uninhabitability due to unsurvivable peak heat stresses and 10C would expand such zones far enough to encompass a majority of today's population." https://www.theguardian.com/environm...ise-population
I know, I know, the left says scientistical evidence done by top climatologians irreputably proves global warming is real while skeptics say that long range projections can't be proven by data that has come under fire for being falsified and that current weather trends actually point to solar induced cooling.
I'm still standing by my offer to by ocean front property in Florida for a nickel on the dollar at current real estate prices. If global warming is real, that land is soon to be worthless so I'm being quite generous.
Well we just had three days of temperatures well below normal in the East, and the rest of the week looks either cooler, or seasonal. Hmmmm, weather changes. Who'd have thought?
I see that you, like a lot of deniers do not know the difference between weather and climate.
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