RE: We've Known About Climate Change for 53 years now.
February 13, 2011 at 3:47 am
(This post was last modified: February 13, 2011 at 3:49 am by Justtristo.)
(February 13, 2011 at 3:41 am)Chuck Wrote: Much of our infrastructure, demographic and geographic foot print is built upon and laid out according to the temperature norms that the world has experienced in the last 300 years. A deviation away from this norm of even 5 degrees, much smaller than what it takes to repeat the Wisconsonian glacial maximum of 20,000 years ago, will bring about a massive and persistent demographic, agricultural, and economic crisis of a scale that will make the 1-2% GDP growth rate impact of proposed GHG measure seem negligible. The fact that earth has seen natural temperature swings over hundreds of thousands to millions of years vastly larger than what we've been able to pull off in our vainglorious attempt to burn all the carbon we can get our hands merely meant the earth will happily move on after our civilization all but collapse.
A drop in global temperatures of 5 degrees Celsius would cause a glacial period similar to the last one. Although the effects would not be evenly distributed, for instance North America would see temperatures fall by 10C degrees.
However a temperature drop of say 2 degrees Celsius on average globally would have major effects on agriculture and might trigger the regrowth of ice sheets in North America and Eurasia.
(February 12, 2011 at 2:04 am)TheDarkestOfAngels Wrote: It's kind of depressing that we've known everything scientists have been telling us for 53 years now (since 1958) about Global Climate Change and we've done jack shit about it.
On the positive side, all the US states that contained the largest portion of americans who typically don't believe in climate change and vote against laws and the people to create them concerning climate change will all be flooded.
Y'all have fun with that. I just wish Texas and Arizona would be completely submerged too, but I suppose some people need to be left behind to make fun of for their failure.
This is clear evidence we need much better science education in schools. Because the sheer ignorance of people when it comes to the basics of the scientific method is simply amazing.
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