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In reply to the discussion: Experiments to dim the sun given green light [View all]IbogaProject
(4,478 posts)Jimmy Carter had a comprehensive plan to get us off of imported oil by the year 2000 using only 1970s technology and maybe some estimates of likely efficiency improvements. Now were are almost 100 ppm of CO2 higher then we were then. This won't be incremental, it is leading to more week to week variability. This includes about 3 high temp records per 1 low temp record, but the pace of record temps either way has been increasing. The amount of water in the air is increasing, and the combination of heat with humidity is what will start killing many people every summer. Even here where we have Air Conditioning, if the power goes out it could turn deadly fast. It is now time to attempt things like this. I personally believe we need to take every nuclear powered ship and start building up the arctic and antarctic ice covers to try and increase our planets reflectivity. And the geologic records shows that rapid climate shifts go exponentially and usually happen over just 10-15 years, if we've begun a switch, which the increase in warming indicates it is about to get very serious. And this is happening far faster than previous switches at the start or end of recent ice ages. Our plants like trees won't be able to settle into new climate zones fast enough.
We haven't been above 400 ppm for about 15 million years, humans and our food sources aren't evolved to handle what is coming in our lifetimes. https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/ The average temperature worldwide was 10 to 20 degrees warmer overall, with less variations, just very hot or hot all the time.
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