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[novapsyche]

It's amazing how many trees still have green leaves this far into the year.

Do you think humans will survive global warming?

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[vrax.livejournal.com]

All of us? No. Many/Some of us, yes, we're pretty wiley.

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

Icon love, as per usual.

[timiathan.livejournal.com]

Global warming is a lot of hype; it's really hard to believe this has become a legitimate question. No matter how much I read, I remain thoroughly unconvinced that the warming trend will necessarily continue, and even if it does, humans are infinitely adaptive. The real problems that loom are pollution in general, and energy shortages. I wish people would get off global warming; we have bigger problems to deal with.

[pgdudda.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't say "bigger problems" as "more imminent problems". We are rapidly reaching the point where the planet does not have enough fresh water to support everyone. (Just for example.) Some of the imminent problems are at least partially caused by the current warming trend (melting snowpacks, etc.), regardless of whether global warming per se is real.

*shrug*

[timiathan.livejournal.com]

Well, I really think energy is the key to everything. If we have a new, cheap, renewable energy source, we don't have to worry about fresh water, because we can just desalinate. If we have a new clean energy, we wouldn't have to dump so much pollution into the oceans and into the air. If we invested half of the money we've spent on Iraq into research and develpment, we could have a microwave system in place in the next 10 years.

Which brings us to the real, real problem -- our system of corporatocracy that prevents us from addressing our real problems. Our entire global management structure has become entirely shortsighted -- politicians only seeing until the next election, CEOs only seeing to the next quarterly earnings report. As long as this system remains in place, we're doomed, whether global warming is real or not.

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

Our entire global management structure has become entirely shortsighted -- politicians only seeing until the next election, CEOs only seeing to the next quarterly earnings report.

That's spot on.

[entheo.livejournal.com]

humans have alraedy survived the global warming that has gone on in the previous 18000 to 6000 years ago, let alone all the previous warming and cooling cycles.

[rmeidaking.livejournal.com]

The thing that humans won't survive is the caldera under Yellowstone erupting. Well, humans in North America will die for sure. The resulting ash cloud will put a serious damper on humans everywhere else on the planet. If the timing is right, and another volcano erupts elsewhere more or less at the same time, there will be a serious cloud formed. That will cool off the planet pretty quickly; the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991 caused two years of no increase in temperature.

Humans really have no impact on the scale of the natural volcanic processes. Eventually those volcanic processes will kill us off.

The global warming people talk about how the ice pack on Antarctica is a couple of million years old. The thing is, it's *only* a couple of million years old. Before that, no ice. The continent has possibly moved due to plate tectonics, but it remains true that at various points in Earth's history, there was no polar ice cap. Animals occasionally nearly died out, but always came back. Will humans be among the survivors? I doubt it.