Cabrone wrote:Like the scorpion on the otters back it's just in our nature.
Cabrone wrote:Life will pull through but most of us won't.
We can't help ourselves.
Like the scorpion on the otters back it's just in our nature.
dohboi wrote:As I've posted elsewhere, the mutliple possitive feedback loops we seem to have kicked in--albedo, tundra methane, phytoplankton die off, perhaps even clathrate release--will likely drive us beyond even the "Great Dying" between the Permian and Triassic ages some 250 million years ago when 95% of life disappeared, possibly after a clathrate methane "burp." It takes tens to hundreds of millions of years for complex life to re-evolve from the fungi and bacteria that may survive such a cataclism. By that time, Pablo's scenario of a super-heated and expanding sun cooking the planet could be well underway.
This is it folks. There is no second chance--for us or for complex life on the planet.
Cheers.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
dohboi wrote:This is it folks. There is no second chance--for us or for complex life on the planet.
django wrote:That's why true environmentalists are what they are for human reasons. There's no guilt for the Earth, only methods by which we have to save ourselves.
Liamj wrote:Everything bigger than ?a mouse however is going to fry if we get runaway global warming and +10C mean temp
The world has already passed the point of no return for climate change, and civilisation as we know it is now unlikely to survive, according to James Lovelock, the scientist and green guru who conceived the idea of Gaia - the Earth which keeps itself fit for life.
In a profoundly pessimistic new assessment, published in today's Independent, Professor Lovelock suggests that efforts to counter global warming cannot succeed, and that, in effect, it is already too late.
the scientist and green guru who conceived the idea of Gaia - the Earth which keeps itself fit for life.
MrBill wrote:But this guy 'thinks' he conceived the idea of an Earth that keeps itself fit for life?
Because of substitutability, peak oil is not just a liquid fuels crisis.
It is an ecological crisis.
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