by KaiserJeep » Sun 13 May 2018, 06:24:31
The only part about the consequences of CC that you have remaining to be absorbed is the single one about technology.
Human beings inhabit an incredible range of climates, using technology to shelter from the ambient temperatures. We live in the ice of the Arctic and Antarctic. We inhabit searing deserts, by moving underground and running A/C during the daytime temperatures.
In the worst case that is at all likely to occur, CC causes widespread death and destruction as the present heavily populated Temperate zones become Tropical and Sub-tropical. In this scenario, the SLR has flooded the coastlines, and the definition of "beachfront" is different, and a few decades of pounding by the surf are producing new stretches of sand from gravel and crumbling bedrock cliffs.
In the brutal Tropical heat and the Arctic temperatures both, electric heat pumps are moderating temperatures, without generating additonal atmosperic carbon dioxide. Our technology saves us. "Us" is after all, a variable number. Recall that the complete diversity of the human genome can be preserved in less than 3500 individuals. Recall that the Earth can absorb and heal from a certain number of humans indefinately, somewhere between the 1 billion or so that existed in 1800AD, to the 3 billion that Tanada estimates is possible with modern hybrid crops. Somewhere between the new searing Tropics and the new Arctic zones, humans will thrive. We simply do not know where the new habitable zones are, and how many humans will live there. That is the degree of uncertainty that exists, not whether we survive - we most assuredly will - but simply how many humans remain, and whether they preserve your particular genetic sample.
I am personally guessing that being located next to North America's Great Lakes, the largest fresh water supplies in the World, with water levels that are moderated and stabilized by the locks and other structures of the St. Lawrence Seaway system, will be helpful. If I'm wrong about that, perhaps my genes will not survive the CC to come, be it natural, man-caused, or both. I would speculate that others have made similar calculations, I believe Tanada for example, lives near Lake Erie.
The only thing you have to do, is make a plan and then implement it. So, make those plans, set yourself goals, and make them happen. Don't forget to double up on the electric heat pumps, for redundancy, and to have multiple sources of electric power.
If you do it correctly, your descendants will thrive. If you don't have any descendants, well, never mind, you lost the race already. So go ahead, post inflammatory and grandiose threads in this Forum, about how scr*wed we are. Spin the numbers to predict the time and place of Doom. It does not matter for YOU, after all.
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