Thread: Is The Sky Falling ?

Scientists: Human activity has pushed Earth beyond four of nine ‘planetary boundaries’ - The Washington Post

It’s official: 2014 was the hottest year - The Washington Post

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I dunno about falling skies but as we are getting warmer we may be getting closer to Hades.

Bob

I've gotta say, "I'm glad I'm old!"
I am saddened for the generations that will be most affected by the changes. my children and grandchildren.
~Richard

Humans are killing the earth,Esp the Oceans,this currant book explains it all:The sixth Extinction by Elizibeth Kolbert.

This is something I've been warning my friends and family about for at least 40 years but I get the rolled eyes reaction or comments like "What you been smoking"?

Man needs to wake up and smell the roses before there are none left to smell.................

Humankind really needs to wake up and as above smell the roses.
Billions of tons of Carbon (mostley Man made) ends up in the oceans every yr.(this leads to acidificaton of the water)
20% of the great barrier Reef (the largest living thing on earth) has died in the past 30 years,in a hundred yrs it may no longer exsist.
We are on the road to hell.

I heard some nut jobs from a Lyndon LaRouche campaign in 1970 speaking about capitalism destroying the earth for heaven's sake. They focused on "their" belief that unchecked deforestation in the Amazon basin (which they called "the lungs of the earth" for heaven's sake) would contribute to warming and drought through the US grainbelt, for heaven's sake. I really thought they were nuts. No way cutting down a few trees in Brazil would affect Iowa and Nebraska, right? Lunatics, those people.

Oh well... Well, maybe they were nuts but they weren't wrong and I was. Anyone who still makes the science of global warming a conservative vs liberal issue needs to go find another planet. It is late in the game to argue if it's happening.

I read that article and it is fascinating.

Some other perspectives I've read is about our friend and foe Nature and Evolution, and that when things get out of balance, Nature has a way of throwing a few good plagues at us to thin the population out. Simply look to Europe in the Middle Ages, cities filled, crime and corruption everywhere, the feudal system entrenched dooming millions to serfdom, then the Black Death showed up, wiped out half the population of Europe and civilization soon emerged in to the Renaissance.

Toss in some good natural disasters and big war and very suddenly we could halve the population of the planet and all the resources and pollution that goes with it.

In my opinion, we'll see something like that first...hopefully not a global nuclear war, but we humans are arrogant creatures though, the Earth will be fine, a couple of hundred thousand years is nothing for the planet, whether we still live on it is another matter.

One scenario I read was about a war or a plague and resulting civil unrest between India, Pakistan and/or possibly involving the Chinese, in that area alone is what, half the worlds population?

I think it's all nonsense. In the 1970's it was about global cooling, now it's about warming. As long as there's a crisis, that's the main thing. Keep funding the "research". What caused the Medieval Warming Period (1100 - 1400 AD), SUVs, carbon emissions? Climate has always changed and we didn't cause it. Regardless of the crisis the solution is always the same, more government regulation, more restrictions, more taxation, less freedom, in other words more socialism.

Originally Posted by mdwright

I think it's all nonsense. In the 1970's it was about global cooling, now it's about warming. As long as there's a crisis, that's the main thing. Keep funding the "research". What caused the Medieval Warming Period (1100 - 1400 AD), SUVs, carbon emissions? Climate has always changed and we didn't cause it. Regardless of the crisis the solution is always the same, more government regulation, more restrictions, more taxation, less freedom, in other words more socialism.

Disagree 100%