We are just starting our ascendant on Dr. Mann's famous hockey stick graph. Things are going to get exponentially worse as we go forward here. The positive feedback loops in the planetary climate system are starting to kick in. It's going to get warmer fast and wetter and wetter makes it even warmer since a primary GHG is water vapor. That warms the ocean faster and melts the ice caps faster which raises sea levels faster. The Arctic sea ice is rapidly going away which changes the planets ability to reflect sunlight back out into space which causes the now dark blue exposed Arctic Ocean to absorb heat and so on and so forth and then finally the shit hits the fan as large amounts of methane hydrates now thawing under the Arctic sea floor start to release billions of tons of raw CH4 ( methane) directly into the ocean and atmosphere. Methane the super GHG 64X as effective at trapping heat as CO2. Temps. then skyrocket and Antarctica's massive Ice sheets start to come unhinged and start to melt and slide faster and faster into the Pacific. Sea rise ramps up faster and faster then and we can kiss coastal American cities and states good-bye as millions have to move away from the ever rising sea. The rest of the planet also experiences the sea level rise and billions begin to migrate away from the oceans rise and the inundation of cities like Shang Hai, NYC, Tokyo, London, Miami, Hong Kong, whole countries start to slide under the waves like Bangla Desh with over 200 million poor people and nowhere to go! Southern Fla. and So. NJ start to slide under the waves as well. I'm already making my plans to abandon ship here along the So. Jersey barrier Island coast. It will be among the first victims of global warming /sea rise. In the 22nd century going to the beach is going to be interesting since most of today's beaches will be deep under water by then. By the 23rd most if not all coastal cities will also be deep under water. The future is not going to be anything like the last 5K yrs. of human history that's for sure. My guess is whomever survives the radical changes coming will be dealing with the after effects of these last 300 yrs. of massive Fossil carbon energy usage for thousands and thousands of yrs. to come. Those folks will look back on our age as part of the last Ice Age because by then very little Ice will remain anywhere on the planet. Plus, the oceans by then will be hundreds of feet deeper then today.
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We are just starting our ascendant on Dr. Mann's famous hockey stick graph. Things are going to get exponentially worse as we go forward here. The positive feedback loops in the planetary climate system are starting to kick in. It's going to get warmer fast and wetter and wetter makes it even warmer since a primary GHG is water vapor. That warms the ocean faster and melts the ice caps faster which raises sea levels faster. The Arctic sea ice is rapidly going away which changes the planets ability to reflect sunlight back out into space which causes the now dark blue exposed Arctic Ocean to absorb heat and so on and so forth and then finally the shit hits the fan as large amounts of methane hydrates now thawing under the Arctic sea floor start to release billions of tons of raw CH4 ( methane) directly into the ocean and atmosphere. Methane the super GHG 64X as effective at trapping heat as CO2. Temps. then skyrocket and Antarctica's massive Ice sheets start to come unhinged and start to melt and slide faster and faster into the Pacific. Sea rise ramps up faster and faster then and we can kiss coastal American cities and states good-bye as millions have to move away from the ever rising sea. The rest of the planet also experiences the sea level rise and billions begin to migrate away from the oceans rise and the inundation of cities like Shang Hai, NYC, Tokyo, London, Miami, Hong Kong, whole countries start to slide under the waves like Bangla Desh with over 200 million poor people and nowhere to go! Southern Fla. and So. NJ start to slide under the waves as well. I'm already making my plans to abandon ship here along the So. Jersey barrier Island coast. It will be among the first victims of global warming /sea rise. In the 22nd century going to the beach is going to be interesting since most of today's beaches will be deep under water by then. By the 23rd most if not all coastal cities will also be deep under water. The future is not going to be anything like the last 5K yrs. of human history that's for sure. My guess is whomever survives the radical changes coming will be dealing with the after effects of these last 300 yrs. of massive Fossil carbon energy usage for thousands and thousands of yrs. to come. Those folks will look back on our age as part of the last Ice Age because by then very little Ice will remain anywhere on the planet. Plus, the oceans by then will be hundreds of feet deeper then today.
I'm reading your post and feeling it, getting sick to my stomach - not a pretty picture, very sad, very disturbing. It's grief.
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