Climate change could mean the extinction of our species

[broncofan]

I found this article that includes discussion by three scientists on the effect of rising seas on human habitation in the next century. They discuss it as an inevitability, but city planners, residents, and large property owners are probably not thinking in terms of changes that will occur by year 2100. I won't be around in the year 2100 unless we have changes in the maximum human lifespan (I'm not sure my telomeres are long enough), but it would be fascinating to see if coastal cities are partially submerged and millions of people displaced. I hope not.

http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/20...ype=blogs&_r=0

Edit: One of the people in the discussion is a novelist in the genre "cli-fi". A cottage industry I guess.

[Stavros]

Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. We should take the Dutch attitude -you can't fight water, so learn to live with it. It raises questions, like -if the Dutch can manage their water problem why can't the British? Two interesting articles on coastal and flood management.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/a...land-help.html

http://www.theguardian.com/environme...ng-netherlands

[martin48]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-27465050

Looks like the water coverage is going to increase. I suppose it's all at the bottom of the Earth so won't get to us

[Stavros]

Looks like the water coverage is going to increase. I suppose it's all at the bottom of the Earth so won't get to us

Is it any more feasible to colonise Antarctica than Mars? I am surprised there hasn't been more debate about it, given the prospects of climate change opening up previously hostile environments to human settlement. I believe Greenland may be the future...

Colonization of Antarctica - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[sukumvit boy]

Antarctica without ice.
http://akarlin.com/2011/10/polar-civilizations/

[Ben]

Prince Charles: Climate Crisis Demands 'Fundamental Transformation of Capitalism'

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/28-5

[Ben]

It's simple. If we can't change our economic system, our number's up:

http://www.theguardian.com/commentis...r-number-is-up

[Ben]

John Boehner said he doesn't feel qualified to "debate the science" of climate change:

[buttslinger]

Here is an article I like about a skeleton from 10,000BC some divers found in a cave in the Yucatan.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/nation...527_story.html

http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/pag...-yucatan/1036/

a 15 year old girl was going through a dark cave when she fell into a huge pit and broke her hip.
They found all these extinct big cats and bears also.

The cool part of the paper says that the people in the Yucatan of this time had traveled well out of their comfort zone to track and kill big game, they were into high risk situations and novelties, like excitement junkies. As Mankind became more agricultural, we became more WOMANIZED.

Kids in my neighborhood don't even play at the creek anymore, while protecting the planet is common sense, I think the evolution of just the last 100 years has threatened turning our species into La-Z-Boy addicted AC Junkies, Even the Bears are getting soft. This pic was taken in Florida a few days ago.

[Ben]

California May Run Out of Water in Two Years:



A lot will critique this -- above -- as mere fear mongering. OK. But I think Noam Chomsky is right. Below.
Ya know, say the scientists are wrong and global warming isn't real. OK. So we've spent a bit of money. And did a few things we should've done. But say the scientists are right. Then what? Well, we'll be in deep trouble as a species.