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5 months ago
No one say it isnt gonna kill us cuz it is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!5 months ago
we are destroying our own planet!! we are polluting earth, the sky, and we found out a way to pollute space!! look up the earth at nite and you will see our continint lit up!! that is all of the electricity we are using!! it is horrible!!! and we are causing it!! 0% 0 VotesIt won%26#039;t be a Hollywood movie style disaster. Gradually coastal areas will flood and agriculture will be damaged. But it will be very bad. Rich countries will cope, but it will take huge amounts of money. In poor countries many people will die of starvation, but not all of them. 0% 0 Votes
The deal is that in the past 450,000 years the CO2 level never got above 300-ppm, and now is nearing the 400-ppm level with nothing stopping its rise. Of note is that the change in temperature during this long period of time was ahead of the change in CO2, then in the 1850%26#039;s or so CO2 began to spike with temperature now trying to rise in response.
The only thing in the way is the ocean, which soaks up the excess heat and in doing so expands, rises, and along with glacier and snowfield meltwater will put about 15-meters/50-ft of ocean over what you see today no more than a century from now as things are going.
Where do those coastal people without housing or jobs go? They will go inland, by the millions, and where do you build the new port to replace the one that just got washed away?
It%26#039;s a social and economic disaster and it%26#039;ll happen in degrees. The islands of Tavu have a government already shopping for countries for its people to move to since the rise in sea-level is already destroying habitats and reefs, with little success.
So, in terms of politics and political time spans, my thought is that when a leftover hurricane floods Manhattan Island enough to force the permanent abandonment of the subway system, that%26#039;ll be the turning point for the power culture in Washington, D.C., to admit global warming is real. Flooding the subways can happen any season now where you get the combo of a big low-pressure system causing a rise in sea-level along with for example a high spring tide ... it%26#039;s a crap game from here on out.
And if anyone wants to know when humanity has actually done enough to deal with the fact of global warming, it%26#039;s when the sea stops rising, that%26#039;s the turning point for what we%26#039;re doing by dumping billions of tons of greenhouse gases per year into the atmosphere like it%26#039;ll go anywhere ...
The best first step to solving the problem is to stop using gasoline immediately and instead use bio-diesel for transportation fuels, and to replace coal for electrical power generation in a separate development of fuels and processes.
Then you grow your fuel, takes CO2 out of the atmosphere and replaces it with molecular Oxygen, then you burn it as fuel and reverse most of this, but the overall cycle will cut emissions way more than any other single thing possible, nothing else is practical in the short-term, hydrogen is the best but it%26#039;s too high-tech for worldwide distribution and replacement of what%26#039;s out there right now.
To convert to bio-diesel you stop delivering gasoline and only delivery bio-diesel to gas stations.
Existing engines can be converted to run well on diesel type fuels (but also can run OK for most people without doing a thing), this can eliminate the largest percentage of emissions %26quot;overnight%26quot; than anything else possible, nothing else is practical that can have such an impact on actual emissions in a relatively short period of time.
By the time failing economies and global impacts from altered climate and rising sea-levels have collided, many poor people will certainly have died well before their time, we have been creating urban slums, now in the billions of people, since the 1960%26#039;s, and an especially rapid growth since the 1980%26#039;s.
This also contributes to the burden that now exists on resources and by their becoming scarce, prices for basic goods will keep rising, adding the to the process of more leaving the farm.
These masses are leaving farms because the capitalist system doesn%26#039;t pay enough there to keep up with the rise in price of basic goods, so they go live in shacks surrounding urban areas to be able to work and make enough to scratch out a living. It%26#039;s a negative feedback with no simple solution. Nearly all of these areas will be affected by the rise in sea-level and this mess will then have to re-locate inland.
Keep your eye on that ocean, when it stops rising ... that%26#039;s when humanity can know they finally have the actual power to keep their best interests in mind. Until then, we%26#039;ll destroy island after island, wash away village after village until the big cities also succumb to the rising sea.
Nice reputation to have in the history books ... the era of petroleum, we need an end to the era of petroleum and need to begin a new era. 0% 0 Votes
I have read many news on the subject and written many articles about it for the school news paper, and the gener information says that by 2100 the world will be in chaos and with very few people. On top of the global warming threat we also have the problem of water and that is estimated to affect us (or end) by 2070.
It%26#039;s shocking, and we have to do something fast!!! 0% 0 Votes