Global dimming and warming.

[popeyespappy]

Um...no? The P-Tr extinction event was characterized by increased aridity (much like the KT) -not one of the proposed effects of our current bout of climate change alarmism. Get it together, are you calling for a global drought or a global flood? They're mutually exclusive...... The thing to remember here (I don;t know why I have to mention this) is that none of those species were H.S.S. We're a little better at this game than they were, by any metrics.

(Speaking of which, the Triassic...fucking fantastic. How anyone could imagine that the events of the P-Tr event led to a planet less friendly towards life is beyond me.....)

Sorry to be the one to inform you, but increased aridity is one of the proposed effects of AGW. Some areas are expected to get drier while others get wetter. The evidence is telling us the lower latitudes are going to get drier and the higher latitudes are going to wetter. Overall it looks like there will be more precipitation, but it won’t be falling at the same rate in the places it has for the last few thousand years. Nor are droughts and floods mutually exclusive. Even in arid regions it is going to rain. What the evidence is telling us to expect is that extreme events that lead to flooding are going to be more common than they have been in our memory.

We are already seeing an increase in the frequency of extreme weather events. There have been more heat waves, more draughts and more flooding in the last 30 years than the previous 30. A lot more. While we can’t point at any single event and say global warming caused this we can we can take them as a whole and say global warming caused these. Statistics bears this out.

Can HSS adapt? Sure we can. Will we is the real question. Some of the areas that will see the worst changes are among the most densely populated. Do you think the rest of the world is going roll over when 3 billion people from the China, India and the US start migrating north looking for water? Canada may be fucked, but I’m thinking Russia isn’t going to meekly accept all those Chinese. The odds of our adaption go down considerably if we blast ourselves back into the Stone Age.

Something several of you seem to be conveniently overlooking is that indications are the climate is changing much faster than it has at any point in history. The faster it happens the harder it is going to be to adapt. Another detail you seem to be skipping over in your evaluation of the K-Tr extinction event Rhythm is it took several million years for biodiversity rebound. If we are heading into another 90 plus percent extinction event then even if HSS manages to adapt and survive what comes out the other side is liable to be very different than what went in. Of course that’s not necessarily a bad thing.