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Send message Joined: 5 Aug 04 Posts: 1120 Credit: 17,202,915 RAC: 2,154 |
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2019/07/weight-of-the-world-climate-change-scientist-grief/?fbclid=IwAR1TCmBIKvMbgsvS642yrQo167Iuq-8Y_vVo5EF7dTwRQ_u0aDaNGicRGIo 
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Send message Joined: 15 Jan 06 Posts: 637 Credit: 26,751,529 RAC: 653 |
The people who survive to form the next civilization will be smarter. |
 JIMSend message Joined: 31 Dec 07 Posts: 1152 Credit: 22,363,583 RAC: 5,022 |
The people who survive to form the next civilization will be smarter. I wouldn't count on it. |
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Send message Joined: 15 Jan 06 Posts: 637 Credit: 26,751,529 RAC: 653 |
The people who survive to form the next civilization will be smarter. Guaranteed. They can't be dumber. |
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Dave Jackson Send message Joined: 15 May 09 Posts: 4535 Credit: 18,961,772 RAC: 21,888 |
The people who survive to form the next civilization will be smarter. I thought that about some previous generations of politicians! |
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Send message Joined: 5 Aug 04 Posts: 1120 Credit: 17,202,915 RAC: 2,154 |
The people who survive to form the next civilization will be smarter. ... if any at all survive ...
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Send message Joined: 15 Jan 06 Posts: 637 Credit: 26,751,529 RAC: 653 |
I thought that about some previous generations of politicians! I know. We won't mention any names. But people can survive above the Arctic (Antarctic) circle. Then the next ice age will drive them back south. I am beginning to think that evolution is driven by ice ages. We need them to make progress. |
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Send message Joined: 15 Jan 11 Posts: 175 Credit: 6,242,691 RAC: 699 |
There's more than a slight chance that anthropogenic global warming could trigger a runaway scenario ending in global conditions that would last millions of years. eg Release of all the methane in the Tundra. Look at the Eocene conditions for comparison, lasting 23 million years. Once planetary climatic conditions become extreme, there are no quick solutions even in geological timescales. Recovery from the KT impact was in the order of 4 to 9 million years. At the opposite end of the spectrum, the two Snowball Earth scenarios both lasted 10 million years. |
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Send message Joined: 15 Jan 06 Posts: 637 Credit: 26,751,529 RAC: 653 |
Those are real possibilities. But Snowball Earth was ended by volcanic eruptions. They can occur on any time scale. And then there are meteors. They are all great incentives for rapid development of our technologies. |
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