tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post2189294842993421100..comments2023-12-23T05:14:34.273-05:00Comments on Wit's End: Oh. My. God.Gail Zawackihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01800944469843206253noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-61833546364073385962010-06-12T19:21:37.859-04:002010-06-12T19:21:37.859-04:00As long as parts of the oceans remain liquid the t...As long as parts of the oceans remain liquid the thermal bacteria and other forms of life that live in the mineral plumes, at places where the ocean plates move away from each other and where the temperature is many hundreds of degrees, will never notice our plight unless the oceans actually boil away. Gaia will live on! But sadly, on a much desiccated planet.<br /><br />Life can't re-evolve into our present watery biosphere because it's said that the water that fills our oceans came from asteroids and meteors that were much more abundant the first time around. When it boils away it's gone and lost to space.<br /><br />catmanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-86747330784019921282010-06-12T05:15:45.788-04:002010-06-12T05:15:45.788-04:00Hi Guillermo!
The change certainly won't beho...Hi Guillermo!<br /><br />The change certainly won't behoove human comfort levels, and unfortunately, we're are taking certainly the majority of plants and animals with us, eventually.<br /><br />The bigger problem is that this AGW is much more rapid than events in the paleoclimate record. Even at that, it takes 10's of millions of years for evolutions to produce the level of biodiversity we inherited 15,000 years ago. So that's pretty effectively forever.<br /><br />The rapidity of AGW which means positive amplifying feedbacks are possible to occur in rapid succession brings with it the risk of runaway heating, the Venus effect Dr. Hansen has warned of. There's no recovering a balance then - boiling hot temperatures, too high for life, would be the new balance.<br /><br />If you haven't read Fred Pearce's "With Speed and Violence" it is quite riveting on these topics.<br /><br />Thanks for reading and keep playing the music!<br /><br />GailGail Zawackihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01800944469843206253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-60927739523302594002010-06-12T01:08:04.682-04:002010-06-12T01:08:04.682-04:00I think the key thing to remember is that 'Gai...I think the key thing to remember is that 'Gaia' is not going to die out if humans die. Like any upset ecosystem, it will just reorganize. <br /><br />The current balance that makes our planet have comfortable living zones for humans is just that- a delicate balance. Upset this, and it will change. The catch is that the change will most likely not behoove human comfort levels. <br /><br />boo hoo.Guillermohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03349575322038597647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-12615829964865087012010-06-10T19:59:17.884-04:002010-06-10T19:59:17.884-04:00Climate change is always followed by mass extincti...Climate change is always followed by mass extinctions. Having said that, IF it is ethanol emissions that is the primary source of the current, recent damage, we can certainly take a huge step towards restoring the ecosystem by not burning it. Everything isn't dead yet. We will have fewer species, for sure. But humans might, as a species, survive. If however it is just general, cumulative, background levels of ozone, then we have to stop burning everything.<br /><br />We have to stop anyway, because of climate change. Runaway heating may be unstoppable anyway - but it's the right thing to do.<br /><br />Thank you for reading and commenting.Gail Zawackihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01800944469843206253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-58214075950495638602010-06-10T19:53:33.464-04:002010-06-10T19:53:33.464-04:00I've got the spots on a young sweet gum and a ...I've got the spots on a young sweet gum and a wild cherry out in the yard.<br />We noticed them last week and were wondering about the cause.<br /><br />Do you suppose we've upset the balance of nature and like humpty-dumpty it's no longer possible to reassemble the great living structure that is Gaia, Nature? <br /><br />No longer possible because we have no idea about many of the connections between chemicals and species and how those relationships change with temperature, moisture, and the environmental chaos resulting, as a host of other variables show themselves to be non-linear when all along we thought they were straight lines and could be safely ignored.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-14792667131183736602010-06-10T17:57:04.837-04:002010-06-10T17:57:04.837-04:00Holy smokes! I'll be watching.
This is chilli...Holy smokes! I'll be watching.<br /><br />This is chilling.Doc Michaelhttp://www.apocadocs.comnoreply@blogger.com