Humans Won't Survive on Half of Earth by 2300
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From: Benj on 15 May 2010 07:38 On May 15, 6:23 am, Giga2 <justho...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > On 14 May, 19:38, Sam Wormley <sworml...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > CLEANTECHNICA: Humans Won't Survive on Half of Earth by 2300 > > Average global temperatures, that have been rising for a century > > already, due to anthropogenic climate change, won't suddenly stop rising > > in 2100, say Australian and US scientists in a study just published in > > the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences > > >http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=humans-wont-survive-.... Be sure to check all the "denier" comments after this propaganda piece! Nobody supports this embarrassment to science by the National Academy of Sciences. It's what happens when politics takes over science. > Wow, this is really wacky stuff, predicting 300 years ahead, lol. Aren't you scared yet? You'd better be! We can all only be saved by each month taking an amount of money equal to our electric bills and sending it to the "Cap and Trade" Exchange in Chicago to be run by "Wormley's" bosses. And don't forget by now we are all supposed to have personal home robots making the bed and washing the dishes. I read it in some other "study" a few years ago. The shame of "Wormley" and his pals is that Scientific American is widely regarded as a credible source for "science" in public education and this nonsense will be widely used to indoctrinate school kids. All we need next is some "study" by Bellesiles "proving" that crime can be eliminated by restricting firearms to those in power and their sworn agents.
From: troll on 15 May 2010 14:57 On May 14, 11:38 am, Sam Wormley <sworml...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > CLEANTECHNICA: Humans Won't Survive on Half of Earth by 2300 > Average global temperatures, that have been rising for a century > already, due to anthropogenic climate change, won't suddenly stop rising > in 2100, say Australian and US scientists in a study just published in > the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences > > http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=humans-wont-survive-.... > > Average global temperatures, that have been rising for a century > already, due to anthropogenic climate change, wont suddenly stop rising > in 2100, say Australian and US scientists in a study just published in > the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Up to half of the > planet would become uninhabitable by the 2300s with an average global > temperature rise of 21.6 degrees Fahrenheit. > > This would make much larger regions into uninhabitable deserts than now. > Humans would not be able to adapt or survive in such conditions. > > If this happens, our current worries about sea level rise, occasional > heat waves and bushfires, biodiversity loss and agricultural > difficulties will pale into insignificance beside a major threat as > much as half the currently inhabited globe may simply become too hot for > people to live there, said Professor Tony McMichael, one of the authors. I have seen a lot of estimates of the world's climate during the past ice age and there were a lot of deserts between the quasi tropical areas and the small temperate belt that existed until one went northward enough to enter the zone covered with glaciers. I think a warmer Earth will be a better Earth. More water will evaporate from the Earth's oceans and so there will be more rain in the tropics and the temperate areas. There will be a longer growing season in the farther north, and the increased carbon dioxide will have a fertilizing effect on the cooler area adapted temperate C3 plants. Supposedly the dinosaurs lived with much greater levels of CO2 and did quite well. There were large numbers of wholly mammoth and saber toothed tigers wandering around, and there was no agriculture until only a blink of an eye in terms of geologic history only a short while ago. The Earth has already been modified. Trillions and trillions of human beings can potentially make the Earth a bad place to live for each individual human being living on it. The infinitely reproducing hoards in the developing countries have about as much regard for the Earth as a person spending all day in a traffic jam on the highway.
From: Giga2 on 15 May 2010 16:12 On 15 May, 12:38, Benj <bjac...(a)iwaynet.net> wrote: > On May 15, 6:23 am, Giga2 <justho...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > > On 14 May, 19:38, Sam Wormley <sworml...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > CLEANTECHNICA: Humans Won't Survive on Half of Earth by 2300 > > > Average global temperatures, that have been rising for a century > > > already, due to anthropogenic climate change, won't suddenly stop rising > > > in 2100, say Australian and US scientists in a study just published in > > > the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences > > > >http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=humans-wont-survive-... > > Be sure to check all the "denier" comments after this propaganda > piece! Nobody supports this embarrassment to science by the National > Academy of Sciences. It's what happens when politics takes over > science. > > > Wow, this is really wacky stuff, predicting 300 years ahead, lol. > > Aren't you scared yet? You'd better be! We can all only be saved by > each month taking an amount of money equal to our electric bills and > sending it to the "Cap and Trade" Exchange in Chicago to be run by > "Wormley's" bosses. > > And don't forget by now we are all supposed to have personal home > robots making the bed and washing the dishes. I read it in some other > "study" a few years ago. > > The shame of "Wormley" and his pals is that Scientific American is > widely regarded as a credible source for "science" in public education > and this nonsense will be widely used to indoctrinate school kids. All > we need next is some "study" by Bellesiles "proving" that crime can be > eliminated by restricting firearms to those in power and their sworn > agents. Its really almost beyond belief, 300 years! Its like saying someone fighting the English civil war could have predicted a black man would be US president in 2009. This isn't science as much as people making fools of themselves, in public, like academic lemmings.
From: tadchem on 15 May 2010 18:08 On May 14, 2:38 pm, Sam Wormley <sworml...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > CLEANTECHNICA: Humans Won't Survive on Half of Earth by 2300 Right now only 29.2% is habitable, so an INCREASE to 50% would be a relative change of +71% - terriffic! http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080310092749AAgnaDs When can I get my gills? Tom Davidson Richmond, VA
From: Catoni on 15 May 2010 19:59
On May 14, 2:38 pm, Sam Wormley <sworml...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > CLEANTECHNICA: Humans Won't Survive on Half of Earth by 2300 > Average global temperatures, that have been rising for a century > already, due to anthropogenic climate change, won't suddenly stop rising > in 2100, say Australian and US scientists in a study just published in > the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences > > http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=humans-wont-survive-.... > > Average global temperatures, that have been rising for a century > already, due to anthropogenic climate change, wont suddenly stop rising > in 2100, say Australian and US scientists in a study just published in > the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Up to half of the > planet would become uninhabitable by the 2300s with an average global > temperature rise of 21.6 degrees Fahrenheit. > > This would make much larger regions into uninhabitable deserts than now. > Humans would not be able to adapt or survive in such conditions. > > If this happens, our current worries about sea level rise, occasional > heat waves and bushfires, biodiversity loss and agricultural > difficulties will pale into insignificance beside a major threat as > much as half the currently inhabited globe may simply become too hot for > people to live there, said Professor Tony McMichael, one of the authors. No problem ! By then we will have discovered power sources for interstellar space travel, or ways to travel many light years instantaneously, and we will be able to migrate to other worlds. |