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  Global Warming  --  Global Climate Change

   The Rate and Severity of Change

  The Environment and the Computer Business

Runaway Global Warming

Unless we take some time to reverse Global Warming, devastating, deadly, and irreversible consequences will soon drastically reduce the human population.   It's so severe that some researchers believe that human extinction is a possibility.    Here's what the evidence tells us:

Human Overpopulation and Human Activity 

Has Triggered a Natural Cycle that Is Deadly, 

Devastating and Soon Will Become Unstoppable.  

Unless we begin a major, global-level effort to reverse this self-expanding cycle within the next five years, the rate of release will escalate very rapidly to the level where it will become un-stoppable.   If we do not take major actions intentionally designed to stop this cycle, the entire 10,000 billion tons of methane presently frozen in the Arctic Circle will automatically be released into the atmosphere.   The environment will be drastically altered.  

  The Earth’s temperature will rise about eighteen degrees Fahrenheit causing most large life forms on the entire planet to become extinct.   The temperature has already risen by two degrees.   With another degree of temperature rise, (two degrees at the most) Global Warming will become unstoppable.

  The ocean level will rise by several feet forcing millions (perhaps even billions)  of people out of their homes. **rgw2 ¹   100 million people live within three feet of sea level.   Ocean level rise is already beginning to show up.   The associated problems are also showing up.   For example, thousands of acres of coastal farmlands have become unusable because salty ocean water has contaminated the coastal ground water. 

  Millions of square miles of the world's most beautiful and productive land will be  under water.   Major cities like London, Venice, New York, Washington, New Orleans will be mostly under water, as will much of Florida and Louisiana.

  Glaciers and mountain snow caps will disappear completely leaving an estimated twenty to thirty percent of the world’s population without fresh water in the dry season.   Entire ecosystems (trees, plants, animals, fish, insects, etc.)  that these mountain, glacial waters support will also die.  (This melting process  is already happening all over the world, and the rate of snow-cap melt is increasing every year.   See the reference below titled,  "PBS - Nova -  Extreme Ice.")

  Billions of people will die of environmental exposure, from disease, from starvation,  or from human violence. 

  Dozens of other highly destructive environmental changes will occur.   Many changes are already well under way such as those causing the unusual and severe weather patterns.   In areas such as northern China, hundreds of square miles of farmland are drying up and turning onto deserts.   Each change is amplifying the effects of the other changes.   Their combined effect, if allowed to continue, will soon overpower all opposition.  The consequences, already devastating, deadly, will soon become irreversible!   

Political conservatives and most of the people in positions of corporate leadership with the capacity to take actions designed to reverse global warming are still focused on making more money.   They are intentionally ignoring this vital and  incredible urgent issue or giving it little more than lip service.  

The common human reaction to any challenge to his/her belief system is to ignore it,  ridicule it,  reject it,  and/or fight it until disaster strikes or until the evidence overwhelms them.   When  the truth finally emerges victorious, they emerge from their illusion, dig themselves out of the rubble from the disaster they ignored, look for someone to blame, and say, "We knew that all along."  

Unfortunately, if we ignore this truth, when the final bell tolls, there will nobody to hear the bell ringing, nobody to ring it, and nobody to say, "We know that all along."   The ghost of humanity might hear a whisper in the wind, "Extinction is Forever!"

The Rate and Severity of Change

The evidence, the scientists, the researchers, and those who observe the environment such a photographer, documentary film makers, and the like,  all keep telling us:  

**   That the environmental changes are dramatic, 

**   That the rates of change are much faster today than they were just a few years ago,  and

**   That the rates at which these changes are occurring is also increasing in speed.

The scientists and researchers have consistently underestimated the rate of speed at which future changes will occur.   

If you notice the way a fire expands, or a disease spreads, or tree grows, you'll notice an exponential growth rate (1 - 2 - 4 - 8 - 16 - 32)  and not a linear growth (1- 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6).    The evidence regarding Global climate change points strongly to exponential rates of change.   

Reference:    PBS - Nova -  Extreme Ice

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/extremeice/program.html 

Are  there any alternatives?  YES!    There is a way take a major steps toward reversing global warming.   The first step on that path is to create financial  stability.   

 http://www.EconomicSanity101.com#83 ²

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