I will soon
reach the point where I will have to stop reading environment predictions or
lose my mind as the profit motive and the energy barons eat the fucking planet.
"Under all plausible greenhouse gas emission
scenarios," the world is on track to surpass temperatures not seen since
the dawn of civilization, according to new research.
Confirming "unprecedented" global warming, the new
study published in Friday's issue of the journal Science shows that the earth's temperatures
catapulted in just the last century at a rate that had previously taken 4,000
years.
"In 100 years, we've gone from the cold end of the
spectrum to the warm end of the spectrum," said climatologist Shaun
Marcott, lead author of the study. "We've never seen something this rapid.
Even in the ice age the global temperature never changed this quickly."
Marcott said that current "global temperatures are warmer than about 75
percent of anything we've seen over the last 11,000 years or so." By 2100,
he said, global temperatures will be "well above anything we've ever seen
in the last 11,000 years."
"The climate changes to come are going to be larger
than anything that human civilization and agriculture has seen in its entire
existence," NPR quotes Gavin Schmidt, a climate researcher
at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, as saying. "And that is
quite a sobering thought."
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4 comments:
Currently (?), the alternative to losing your mind is starving and/or freezing to death.
You mean, if we want to survive, the planet needsto become needs to heat up until it's impossible to live here? Now that's an interesting thought ...
What I mean is that at the moment tens of millions of people rely on the fossil fuel energy industry to stay alive. We may not like it, but to deny it is irrational and merely whining about it doesn't change it (well, so far it hasn't)
There's a zillion things we could do now to change the direction we're heading, but I think it'srather too late now. So there.
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