vmax Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 I know...I know...you're thinking "there goes max...he can't let this climate stuff go."I can't.It's all about awareness...not denial. Denial is going to kill everybody and everything. Take the 30 minutes to read this. It scares me shitless....worrying about my children's future....everybody's future.What I've cut and pasted here is very mild. Read on as the writer describes what will happen to people in gruesome detail. It is, I promise, worse than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible, even within the lifetime of a teenager today.......The Earth has experienced five mass extinctions before the one we are living through now, each so complete a slate-wiping of the evolutionary record it functioned as a resetting of the planetary clock, and many climate scientists will tell you they are the best analog for the ecological future we are diving headlong into. Unless you are a teenager, you probably read in your high-school textbooks that these extinctions were the result of asteroids. In fact, all but the one that killed the dinosaurs were caused by climate change produced by greenhouse gas. The most notorious was 252 million years ago; it began when carbon warmed the planet by five degrees, accelerated when that warming triggered the release of methane in the Arctic, and ended with 97 percent of all life on Earth dead. We are currently adding carbon to the atmosphere at a considerably faster rate; by most estimates, at least ten times faster. The rate is accelerating. This is what Stephen Hawking had in mind when he said, this spring, that the species needs to colonize other planets in the next century to survive, and what drove Elon Musk, last month, to unveil his plans to build a Mars habitat in 40 to 100 years. These are nonspecialists, of course, and probably as inclined to irrational panic as you or I. But the many sober-minded scientists I interviewed over the past several months — the most credentialed and tenured in the field, few of them inclined to alarmism and many advisers to the IPCC who nevertheless criticize its conservatism — have quietly reached an apocalyptic conclusion, too: No plausible program of emissions reductions alone can prevent climate disaster...*This article appears in the July 10, 2017, issue of New York Magazine....http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/when-will-the-planet-be-too-hot-for-humans-much-much-sooner-than-you-imagine/ar-BBE6TNd?li=BBnb7Kz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papasmurfbell Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAM0tZB0aIcComing to a shipping lane near you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldcrow Posted July 17, 2017 Share Posted July 17, 2017 i don't know why ya got a problem with opening up new real estate according to the map there is crack and ice available in the new neighborhoodmust assume salts are available too. HURRAY CAPITALISM !!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papasmurfbell Posted July 17, 2017 Share Posted July 17, 2017 i don't know why ya got a problem with opening up new real estate according to the map there is crack and ice available in the new neighborhoodmust assume salts are available too. HURRAY CAPITALISM !!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeshopper Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 Bath salts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papasmurfbell Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 Rise of the face eaters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldcrow Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 Hey there is health care too not sure about public transportation to get to the Suture Zone they'll probably still charge an exorbitant amount for an ice pack there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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