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2010-02-05 Science & Technology

Caution, calibrate your BS Meter: Backing down on climate change

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2010-02-05 12:23|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 No one really knows what would happen if average temperatures hit 5 C higher than 1850 -- a level we could easily reach within a century under a business-as-usual scenario

No one really knows what would happen if average temperatures hit 5 C higher than 1850 -- a level we could easily reach within a century under a business>/del> statistics.-as-usual scenario

TherE. Fixed it.

Posted by JFM 2010-02-05 12:46|| 2010-02-05 12:46|| Front Page Top

#2 I think this is the link; its an LATimes editorial

Posted by lord garth 2010-02-05 13:23|| 2010-02-05 13:23|| Front Page Top

#3 People need to be reminded that we are one (overdue) major volcanic eruption away from a global catastrophe that might kill a billion people.

That's what we should be preparing for.

Posted by phil_b 2010-02-05 14:42|| 2010-02-05 14:42|| Front Page Top

#4 You forgot the giant meteor. Living in Arizona, I worry about that one a lot as we have definite proof that they know to turn left at Albuquerque!

Posted by Adriane 2010-02-05 15:37|| 2010-02-05 15:37|| Front Page Top

#5 a global catastrophe that might kill a billion people.

Do we get to choose who they are? Because I've already started a list.

Posted by SteveS 2010-02-05 17:11|| 2010-02-05 17:11|| Front Page Top

#6 According to Sumerians, Nibiru is 'possed to return in about 60 years. The last time (cca 1540 BCE) it passed through the solar system, it fried Harappa and Mohenjo Daro (electrical firestorms that fused some brick walls into glass) and generally deposited enough debris and dust particles in the atmosphere that the cloud cover formed in much lower altitudes (that is where "the sky is falling" expression comes from). Other side effects: parting of the sea, wiping out all the Central European lake base villages (there was a similar event about 1600 years earlier, but not as devastating and the villages were rebuilt, after 1540BCE, no more of them built until about 300BCE by some Keltic and Slavic tribes), frying a large strip on Sinai peninsula to a crisp (visible from space), finishing off the desertification of Sahara, elevating parts of the west coast of South America from sea level up to 4000 m in altitude, and other events that are not precisely dated all over the world but seem to refer to the same period. According to Hebraic sources, the Exodus population at the end of the journey was reduced in 50 to 1 ratio, and Jews were of the luckier ones, some pops disappeared altogether according to other sources. Egypt was in such a bad shape that it has been invaded without much resistance by Hyksos (Greek term, in reality these were marauding Amalek protoarabic tribes) which then lorded over Egypt for the next 400 years. People lived in interesting times, then.

Temps ranged from + 20 C degrees at the beginning of the upheaval (several days) to -15 C drop later in some parts, which lasted for some 25 years.

2 C/5 C increase? C'mon! That would be marvelous! More produce and extended harvest, better fed people, healthier, longer life span...

Posted by twobyfour 2010-02-05 17:40|| 2010-02-05 17:40|| Front Page Top

#7 *The increase and drop of temps relative to current mean average.

Posted by twobyfour 2010-02-05 17:45|| 2010-02-05 17:45|| Front Page Top

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