Sifting through 2006 - Glorious articles Gleam from the Rubbish
I found this great op-ed piece from Gregg Easterbrook who is a contributor for the New York Times. Its theme is the case for global warming and how it is becoming obvious that it is real. One of the better quotes from the article:
“The greatest worry is that climate change will harm the agricultural
system on which civilization is based. Suppose climate change shifted
precipitation away from breadbasket regions, sending rain clouds
instead to the world’s deserts. Over generations, society would adjust
— but years of global food shortages might occur during the adjustment,
likely causing chaos in poor countries and armies of desperate refugees
at the borders of wealthy nations.”
I think we are already seeing this take place.
The article also mentions that by some estimates the global water levels could rise as much as three feet by the end of the 21st century.
On the short term, there are some benefits for rising temperatures, lower heating costs, opening of the tundra to development, and the article mentions that Buffalo may become a vaction paradise…. hmmmm… I am skeptical about that but who knows, stranger things are happening. Like the coordinated simultaneous massive wind storms experienced by Europe and the US in the past week. Are we talking about weather terrorism here? WEATHER TERROR! Is the weather the new terrorist threat? Weather jihad? hmmmm… How do you fight the wind?
All I know is that sending more troops in to surge against it wouldn’t work in this case. Yes, we are all doomed, because mother nature’s fury has never been beat, she will destroy, pilliage, and plunder on a whim, and all the scientists can do is blame it on el nino or el nina or whatever they want to label it.
Once we somehow can master the weather, then we will have truly become gods among men. For he who controls mother nature can be master of the earth.
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