Global Warming

[mburbank]

I've no doubt the earth and it's biosphere are capabe of recovering in the blink of a geolical eye.

The problem with the havoc we're sewing right now has to do with us. We are going to make things very bad for humans.

Global warming is about GLOBAL temperatures and averages. As we shove the gulf stream around changing weather patterns, areas of arable land and deserts, disease patterns, fisheries etc., places we push the gulf stream away from are going to get colder. That's been a part of the model for the last two decades.

Again, the earth will adapt and rebalance. Really slowly. We humans live at a much faster pace. For instance, if the water table goes up by a few feet, NYC, Boston, Louisiana and San Francisco will be really, really fucked. If the midwest goes through a period of droubt on the level of the dust bowl, except six times longer, The USA will be really fucked. If infectious diseases south Americans and africans have lots of immunities built up for travel hundreds of miles further north than they ever have in human memory...

well, you get the picture.

But what say we pay attention to some science no one has any arguments with. No one thinks fossil suels are renewable. Everyone knows they are a finite resource. Not becoming the leader in alternative technologies is the height of irresposability.

No one has any idea what to do with Nuclear waste. Everyone agrees it goes on being toxic and dangerous for lifetimes. Not investing heavily in research on what to do about nuclear waste and putting a moratorium on making more until we have some sort of plan is the height of irresponsability.

No one thinks fresh water will be in great enough supply for drinking sanitation and irrigation. Not being the leader in clean water technology is the heigt of irresponsability.

Heavy investment with diversification in areas of energy that are either dead ends or dangerously counterproductive seems like a bad strategy.