RE: Mass Extinction!
December 5, 2010 at 1:07 am
(This post was last modified: December 5, 2010 at 1:10 am by Autumnlicious.)
Both of you are correct dammit!
Climate change is an incredible problem right now as humans have contributed quite a bit of help to a force that has routinely decimated the globe in ages past ("Ice age").
Cutting down forests, overpopulation, carbon fuels all have contributed to that behemoth.
And no Shell, sea level rise and the fluctuations brought on by climate change will destroy or severely damage existing ecosystem. Technically, climate change is a bigger problem.
Think of it akin to a giant, heavy boulder rolling down a hill at us -- at first it starts slowly due to it's mass, but when it gets up to speed, good luck stopping it.
What accelerates and assists that giant climate change boulder of doom is cutting down forests, etc,. Increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere (and thus additional molecules that can store thermal energy quite well (as vibrational modes)) and damaging carbon sequestration is affecting the entire globe.
Global climate change, like any other large scale event, has a certain momentum to it. Several talks I attended by USGS scientists stated clearly that even if we were to halt all carbon emissions by humanity immediately, climate change would still occur. Not nearly as badly, but still.
Ladies and Gentlemen, there is a projected atmospheric/climate freight train thundering down the track and is aimed right at us.
Climate change is an incredible problem right now as humans have contributed quite a bit of help to a force that has routinely decimated the globe in ages past ("Ice age").
Cutting down forests, overpopulation, carbon fuels all have contributed to that behemoth.
And no Shell, sea level rise and the fluctuations brought on by climate change will destroy or severely damage existing ecosystem. Technically, climate change is a bigger problem.
Think of it akin to a giant, heavy boulder rolling down a hill at us -- at first it starts slowly due to it's mass, but when it gets up to speed, good luck stopping it.
What accelerates and assists that giant climate change boulder of doom is cutting down forests, etc,. Increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere (and thus additional molecules that can store thermal energy quite well (as vibrational modes)) and damaging carbon sequestration is affecting the entire globe.
Global climate change, like any other large scale event, has a certain momentum to it. Several talks I attended by USGS scientists stated clearly that even if we were to halt all carbon emissions by humanity immediately, climate change would still occur. Not nearly as badly, but still.
Ladies and Gentlemen, there is a projected atmospheric/climate freight train thundering down the track and is aimed right at us.
