On 08/19/2016 08:00 AM, Steve Kinney wrote: > On 08/17/2016 09:46 PM, Mirimir wrote: > >> Arguing about anthropogenic climate forcing is just fucking >> useless. The latency is too great, and there are too many positive >> feedbacks. By the time that impacts are undeniable enough to >> motivate substantial reductions in CO2 emissions, it will be too >> late. > > About the time follow up studies measured and confirmed annual summer > methane discharges from thawed out former Arctic permafrost (ancient > peat bogs, tidal flats etc.), climatologists stopped talking about > "stopping" much less reversing global warming.
Right, that will likely be a major factor. I'm betting that we'll see regional forest burn-offs, as precipitation shifts away from the equator. Amazon will become grasslands and desert. Africa too. Migration will be a bitch. Maybe US and EU will nuke strategically to prevent that. Maybe we'll finally see WWIII ;) > So far I am not aware of any positive public statements from competent > actors to the effect that global warming is now self-driving > regardless of human activity. I suspect there is a quiet consensus > that telling this particular truth would do more harm that good: The > human contribution to global warming does continue to accelerate the > process and enlarge its "final" impact, so statements that could be > taken as excuses to just give up on reducing greenhouse gas emissions > would be counter-productive. Before too long, it won't matter ;) > With or without global warming, the exponential growth of human > population and the industrial processes that drive this growth had to > end sometime. That time is "real soon now." Interesting times are coming, for sure ;) > :o/ > > >