Re: Rising carbon dioxide is greening the Earth - but it's not all good news

On Aug 19, 2016, at 6:30 PM, Mirimir wrote:

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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 ;)

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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 ;)

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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 ;)

I appreciate and fully endorse your optimism :) ROFL John