Re:The Coming Ice Age (1958)
by newvoiceoldphne on Friday June 14, 2019 @06:09PM
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Or just do what we do best: adapt and overcome
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The last time global temperatures averaged 4 degrees higher there were palm trees at the arctic. At 8 degrees, clouds no longer form. Some estimates have us headed for the 3.2-3.5 range as an optimistic outcome. (Uninhabitable Earth)
Re:The Coming Ice Age (1958)
by briantakita on Saturday June 15, 2019 @02:53AM
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The climate is getting colder & the Antarctic glaciers are growing, so no worries about palm trees in Antarctica. We will have lower food production (there goes the "green revolution"), more volcanic eruptions, more earthquakes, a magnetic pole reversal, with a weakened Heliosphere & Magnetosphere making us less protected against space weather though, so at least you will have that to be alarmed about.
BTW, ancient people around the world had some interesting & consistent art that looks strikingly like plasma discharge reproduced in laboratories. Maybe they were smarter than what we give them credit for?