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

John Newman jnn at synfin.org
Sun Aug 21 07:11:43 PDT 2016


> On Aug 19, 2016, at 6:30 PM, Mirimir <mirimir at riseup.net> wrote:
>> 
>> 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 ;)
> 
>> 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 ;)
> 
>> 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




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