Sunday, July 8, 2007
New Realities.
Las Vegas had 128 deg Fahrenheit in July 2007 and, if the jet stream pattern continues to move to the East, Chicago and New York will learn the new meaning for a "Heat Wave". After that, everyone will believe in Global Warming, even if the Heat Wave is unrelated to Global Warming.
However, there is another possibility, the Presidential Primary of February 5th, 2008, will include California and the candidates are already promoting the "most aggressive" stand on Global Warming. For example, some propose a 50% Carbon reduction by 2050 and others demand an 80% Carbon reduction. None of them specify what will replace the energy source and what will that do to the economy.
At this time, it is posturing but by 2011, the issue will be when will sales of gasoline end and what fuel will take its place. Some are already arguing for use of Nuclear Power to produce Hydrogen and support this as being the "cheapest" provided, note, provided "you exclude the construction costs", a typical "political bookeeping ploy" that candidates must find useful since, they seem to think, most voters either don't read, don't care or what?
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Scientists laid out a timeline of the planet's future in April assuming no drastic changes in pollution rates.
2007: The world population surpasses 6.6 billion as more people now live in cities than in rural areas, changing patterns of land use.
2008: Global oil production peaks between 2008 and 2018, triggering a global recession, food shortages and conflicts between nations over dwindling supplies.
2020: Flash floods increase across Europe. Less rainfall reduces agriculture yields by up to 50 percent in some areas. Population reaches 7.6 billion
2030: As much as 18 percent of the world's coral reefs are lost as a result of the changing climate and other environmental stresses.
2040: The Arctic Sea is ice-free in the summer, and winter ice depth shrinks drastically. Some say this won't happen until 2060 to 2105.
2050: Large glaciers shrink by 30 to 70 percent as a quarter of the plant and vertebrate animal species on the planet face extinction.
2070: As warmer, drier conditions lead to more frequent and longer droughts, electricity production for the world's existing hydropower stations decreases.
2080: Between 1.1 and 3.2 billion people experience water shortages and up to 600 million go hungry
2085: The risk of dengue fever from climate change increases to 3.5 billion people.
2100: A quarter of all species of plants and land animals -- more than a million total -- are driven to extinction.
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