re: #1 Dark_Falcon

Ludwig hit this topic in the last thread, so i have to ask him:

If AGW can’t be stopped, how bad will it be?

OK I sort of wrote about that, But there are 4 main issues…

Let’s look at the worst case.

The worst case is we do nothing, or not enough and cross a tipping point in the bogs of Siberia and Canada. If we cross that point, the following WILL happen.

1. That will lead to a 5-7 degree centigrade average temperature increase globally.

2. The oceans will start having anoxia. That means that there will be no oxygen in them. There will be mass extinctions there - including most of the things we eat from them. The reason has to do with carbon saturation in the oceans and changing of buffers as species dies off and ocean chemistry changes.

3. 200 ft of water raise around the world. Let me repeat. 200 ft of water raise around the world. In practical terms, no Florida, NY City, Boston, Baltimore, DC, New Orleans, LA, SD, Barcelona, Tokyo, well, you get the picture… Just consider what 200 ft would be like and ask if where you are now is 200 ft above sea level. G-d help certain Island nations and most of South East Asia as well.

4. Growing patterns in the Midwest of America and much of the US are shattered. Worldwide land based food production plummets in general.

5. Places worldwide that depend on meltwaters for freshwater, dry up. Those people move or die of thirst. This is the US South West and Parts of California. THis is also large parts of SOuth America and Asia as well. G-d help you again if you are in Africa.

6. As climate and migration patterns change, some species are actually winners in such an environment. Those species include, mosquitoes, rats cockroaches and other vermin. Contagion will spread.

The end result is hundreds of millions of deaths at a minimum and the total collapse of civilization as we know it.