Wed Sep 16, 2015, 10:46 AM
skip fox (13,890 posts)
Will climate change significantly affect our species?
I'm wondering what other DUers think.
Regardless of other species (I don't want to neglect them or suggests our fates are not linked, but for the sake of the question), do you think that climate change will extinguish the human race or radically re-adjust is dispensations, eliminating modern life as we have come to know it, for instance?
I'm not asking if we can yet avoid its major effects, but will we?
Is the petroleum industry so powerful that it will take us (and sadly thousands of other species) over the cliff?
What do you think?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027173945Wed Sep 16, 2015, 10:49 AM
Star Member peacebird (10,616 posts)
2. Yes it will significantly affect our species, large areas will be underwater due to rising seas
That much is clear.
According to Algore.
Wed Sep 16, 2015, 11:20 AM
nadinbrzezinski (141,351 posts)
7. Jesus, Mother Earth has not one thing to do with this
Wed Sep 16, 2015, 11:24 AM
nadinbrzezinski (141,351 posts)
10. A sky figure has not one thing to do with this
nada, not a one.
If, and according to a few experts this is not possible anyway, we are to survive...sky dads Don't help. I am being as serious as well, a heart attack.
Screw the extinction of the human race! Don't these DUmmies know it's all about nadin?
Wed Sep 16, 2015, 11:34 AM
nadinbrzezinski (141,351 posts)
Yup, I am pleased with myself I did not have children.
My hypothetical great grand kids might not ever be born.
Well, she could have had children, but coach refused to take that one for the team.
I think we're all pretty pleased that nadin is barren.
Wed Sep 16, 2015, 11:21 AM
nadinbrzezinski (141,351 posts)
8. BY 2100 the species might be on a decline that will lead to extinction
yes, more and more scientists are saying that
Wed Sep 16, 2015, 11:49 AM
GliderGuider (18,603 posts)
14. Of course it will.
We're already seeing effects from the current planetary heat loading.
We - the aggregate global "we" - have no way of voluntarily slowing carbon emissions significantly and rapidly, where "significant and rapid" means something like an 80% reduction in CO2 emissions within 20 years. Effective international agreements cannot be achievedeven for slow and insignificant reductions.
1. If the world economy keeps humming, CO2 will keep rising. Eventually the world's heat loading will be enough to cause widespread crop failures with all that implies. We may be within 20 years of that point.
2. The only thing we know of that would reduce human CO2 emissions significantly and rapidly is a global economic collapse. The probability, timeline and severity of such a crash is unpredictable, but the state of the world's economy and finances at the moment makes me very pessimistic.
And finally, the democrat dream, and the whole point of the global warming scam:
Perhaps the best we can hope for is a partial collapse of the world economy.