treeplanter wrote:
DrumIntoTheNight wrote:
treeplanter wrote:
I think the scary part is that even if the entire human population stopped producing any amount of CO2 emissions, the earth would still continue to warm for years
Treeplanter hit the nail on the head again. The warming we’re experiencing is the by-product of carbon emissions
from 50 years ago. Emissions have at least doubled in that time, so that’s a scary fucking thought.
Oh, that poor nail, I’m really laying into it
DrumIntoTheNight wrote:
Peak Oil
Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum
Permian-Triassic Extinction Event
Ice Albedo Effect
Carbon Storage in the Amazon Rainforest
Desertification in the Amazon Rainforest
Thermokarst Lakes
And the truely scary one, Methane Clathrates.
Happy reading =]
I had wanted to mention the oil crisis as well; it seems a little crazy to me how certain the end of oil is and yet how resilient we seem to accept the acual implications of that.
Anyway, I thought I might mention a perhaps less-daunting book (great references Drum, but other then “Peak Oil” the other books I believe would be a bit too technical for most of us; but I don’t really know that since I haven’t read any of them
).
The Long Emergency is supposed to be a good read (I admit..I haven’t read it yet...started to but my university library doesn’t carry it
)
Anyway, good conversation guys
Although it has strayed away from the original intent which was mitigation options.
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