DIYbanter - View Single Post

On 24 Feb 2006 11:15:22 -0800, wrote:

The world we have known is history. A mere 1 degree Fahrenheit global
average warming is already raising sea levels,

by what, a couple of millimeters?

strengthening
hurricanes, disrupting ecosystems, threatening parks and protected
areas, causing droughts and heat waves, melting the Arctic and glaciers
everywhere and killing tens of thousands of people a year.

How do you know that climate change isn't saving millions of lives in
other, less obvious places?

Yet there are several more degrees coming in our grandchildren's
lifetimes.

It is easy to feel like a character in a bad science fiction novel
running down the street shouting "Don't you see it!" while life goes
on, business as usual.

Climate change is the biggest thing to happen here on earth in
thousands of years,

But the climate has been changing erratically for billions of years,
often thousands of times more radically than it's changing now. And
nobody really knows if it's getting cooler or warmer, and if we knew,
we still wouldn't know if that will make things better or worse, and
for who.

with incalculable environmental, social and
economic costs.

You're sure right about the "incalculable" part.

John