Posted on 08/11/2008 6:57:08 AM PDT by PittsburghAfterDark
We need to get prepared for four degrees of global warming, Bob Watson told the Guardian last week. At first sight this looks like wise counsel from the climate science adviser to Defra. But the idea that we could adapt to a 4C rise is absurd and dangerous. Global warming on this scale would be a catastrophe that would mean, in the immortal words that Chief Seattle probably never spoke, "the end of living and the beginning of survival" for humankind. Or perhaps the beginning of our extinction.
The collapse of the polar ice caps would become inevitable, bringing long-term sea level rises of 70-80 metres. All the world's coastal plains would be lost, complete with ports, cities, transport and industrial infrastructure, and much of the world's most productive farmland. The world's geography would be transformed much as it was at the end of the last ice age, when sea levels rose by about 120 metres to create the Channel, the North Sea and Cardigan Bay out of dry land. Weather would become extreme and unpredictable, with more frequent and severe droughts, floods and hurricanes. The Earth's carrying capacity would be hugely reduced. Billions would undoubtedly die.
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Such a package of measures would allow us to achieve zero net greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, and long-term stabilisation at 350 parts per million of CO2 equivalent. This avoids the economic pain that a cap-and-trade system alone would cause, and targets assistance at the poor, who are least to blame and most need help. The permit auction would raise about $1 trillion per year, enough to finance a spread of solutions. At a quarter of the world's annual oil spending, it is a price well worth paying.
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The hubris of these people know no bounds.
Most likely result is that there would be another green revolution with the additional CO2 stimulating plant growth.
Follow the money.
algore needs sales to build a bigger house...
When I woke up yesterday it was 48 degrees here in southern Michigan. We only had a high of about 70 yesterday.
OK.
I could see paying the 1 Trillion to God. The real God, not the gods of the secular left and the “scientific community”.
He is the only one who can have any effect whatsoever on climate.
ANY...
One begins to wonder if these "pundits" ever "put brain in gear" before putting pen to page.
Humankind has ALREADY adapted to a MORE than 4C rise (last ice age to now) and not just survived, but prospered mightily.
We have not had a decent August heat wave in New Jersey in years. I am on my third summer of producing nothing but green tomatoes. When are you guys in the Midwest going to start running those SUVs, so I can get some heat around here?
Four degrees of separation: between you and your money................
We need to get prepared for four degrees of global warming, Bob Watson told the Guardian last week. At first sight this looks like wise counsel from the climate science adviser to Defra.
Bob Watson is an idiot. In looking at the 270 comments already on the UK site, I’d say even the reserve English think this.
Leave $1,000,000,000,000.00 in unmarked bills in a paper bag by the trash can at the train station, or the planet gets it!...
Yeah I’ve given up on the tomatoes. We need the 60 and 70 degree nights for them to ripen and it just isn’t happening.
Messing up my mind with facts are you?....;^)
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