Lot's of things might happen. The bathtub equatorial oceans might fuel monster hurricanes/typhoons from the rapid evaporation. My bigger concern personally, is feeding the hungry ass world during the current state of flux. Less predictable weather patterns, desertification/flooding of growing areas, and the probable loss of the worlds pollinators (an extremely delicate facet of the equation) as well as a host of other factors are really going to put a pinch on our ability to feed ourselves.
Yeh, it makes sense to explore beyond the Earth which might as well be the thing of the past already. Your conerns are noted and taken seriously. Do you happen to be a biologist?
As if we don't have enough to worry about already. These viruses, mutations, would not surprise me if emissions have something to do with them.
I agree. One can draw supporting conclusions one way or the other by the point one chooses for baseline. I don't believe the hype of Global warming. Are we warming up, maybe? Maybe even cooling? It all depends on what our baseline is? I perceive it as a cycle. Warming leads to cooling, cooling leads to warming. How much man influences this cycle? That is another debate.
So you saying each one of this cycle represents an equilibrium state. A shift in such an equilibrium state is then simply a transition to another equilibrium state. Now, within each of this state, how can we use to determine as baseline what's favorable or not for survival of all life forms on Earth?
conveyor theory might if it were in fact getting warmer, but in the last 10 years it hasn't and has in fact erased the previous 1 degree that has caused the "crisis". I just remember colder winters and hotter summers in the south then we have had in the last few years. As Todd says--I too have nothing of value to contribute to this thread.
Tommy-for more impact for my view, and others, that "Global Warming" is a power grab by "The insider establishment" Here's a MIT professor of atmospheric science assessment: http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110008220
So, then, according to Mark Twain, climate change would just be a matter of managing expectations? “Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.”
It sounds like this guy science didn't pass peer review. And he's pissed because he can get it published.