Runaway Global Warming - Scarier than you think

Hagakure_Leofman

I think climate change skeptics are the new Jehovah's Witness!

(no offense to Jehovah's Witnesses intended.)

TonyPrep

AgentR

AgentR

Cid_Yama

Why do you let the Trolls control the conversation? Take essex for example. In not one of his posts has he provided a link or documentation in support of his crap. On the other hand, he's demanded it from you at every opportunity, adding LOL at the end of his posts just to irritate you.

Enjoy life while you can

Lovelock has been dispensing predictions from his one-man laboratory in an old mill in Cornwall since the mid-1960s, the consistent accuracy of which have earned him a reputation as one of Britain's most respected - if maverick - independent scientists. Working alone since the age of 40, he invented a device that detected CFCs, which helped detect the growing hole in the ozone layer, and introduced the Gaia hypothesis, a revolutionary theory that the Earth is a self-regulating super-organism. Initially ridiculed by many scientists as new age nonsense, today that theory forms the basis of almost all climate science.

Most of the things we have been told to do might make us feel better, but they won't make any difference. Global warming has passed the tipping point, and catastrophe is unstoppable.

"It's just too late for it," he says. "Perhaps if we'd gone along routes like that in 1967, it might have helped. But we don't have time. All these standard green things, like sustainable development, I think these are just words that mean nothing. I get an awful lot of people coming to me saying you can't say that, because it gives us nothing to do. I say on the contrary, it gives us an immense amount to do. Just not the kinds of things you want to do."

Lovelock believes global warming is now irreversible, and that nothing can prevent large parts of the planet becoming too hot to inhabit, or sinking underwater, resulting in mass migration, famine and epidemics.

Nuclear power, he argues, can solve our energy problem - the bigger challenge will be food. "Maybe they'll synthesise food. I don't know. Synthesising food is not some mad visionary idea; you can buy it in Tesco's, in the form of Quorn. It's not that good, but people buy it. You can live on it." But he fears we won't invent the necessary technologies in time, and expects "about 80%" of the world's population to be wiped out by 2100. Prophets have been foretelling Armageddon since time began, he says. "But this is the real thing."

Interviewers often remark upon the discrepancy between Lovelock's predictions of doom, and his good humour. "Well I'm cheerful!" he says, smiling. "I'm an optimist. It's going to happen."

"There have been seven disasters since humans came on the earth, very similar to the one that's just about to happen. I think these events keep separating the wheat from the chaff. And eventually we'll have a human on the planet that really does understand it and can live with it properly. That's the source of my optimism."

What would Lovelock do now, I ask, if he were me? He smiles and says: "Enjoy life while you can.

MELTING METHANE - Hydrate Armaggedon upon us

"The seawater proved to be "highly oversaturated with solute methane," reports Shakhova. In the air over the sea, greenhouse-gas content was measured in some places at five times normal values. "In helicopter flights over the delta of the Lena River, higher methane concentrations have been measured at altitudes as high as 1,800 meters," she says."

It's beginning now. This will not be a gradual trend. This will be an event, a giant methane burp, so to speak.

AWI's results show that permafrost in the flat shelf is perilously close to thawing. Three to 12 kilometers from the coast, the temperature of sea sediment was -1 to -1.5 degrees Celsius, just below freezing.

Another 1-1.5 degrees and the shelf will look like a shook up soda can. An ice-free summer in the Arctic will do it.

As you're dying in temperatures too high for humans to endure, know that essex is too, and LOL just one more time.

Share the End - Carly Simon
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essex

Well cid, if you bother to trawl my posts you'll find plenty of links I've provided for you hysterical trolls. Hey, don't wait to fry , just take your cultists to the mountain top and jump off. The climate has always changed and sometimes abruptly, a fact of life - ask anyone who had to endure the last Northern Hemisphere winter.

Man's impact ? Minor at best. Warming fanaticism has arisen as conventional religion has declined - which is worse some future genuine peak oil historian will have to decide.

LOL !