Runaway Global Warming

In addition to releasing vast amounts of carbon dioxide into the Earth's atmosphere, human-caused Climate Change has also triggered the release of the 10,000 billion tons of methane presently frozen in the tundra (in the biomass) at the Arctic Circle.

(Methane is twenty times more destructive to the environment than carbon dioxide.)   

Human overpopulation **rgw3 ¹  and human activity has already dumped billions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere.  This release of CO2 has caused the Earth's temperature to rise by about two degrees.   Because of this temperature rise, each year, the amount of gas being released from the biomass at the Arctic Circle  is increasing.   If allowed to continue,  the methane  (which decays into CO2)  will cause the level of CO2 level to rise much higher and much faster.  (The rate of change is exponential, 1-2-4-8-16-32, and not linear, 1-2-3-4-5-6)   Some experts say that just one more degree of temperature rise (two degrees at the most) will cause the temperature rise to become irreversible.   One could say the human activity has triggered Natures Doomsday Machine.   

Unless, within the next five years, we begin a major, global-level effort to turn stop runaway global warming,² this self-expanding cycle will become un-stoppable, and it will produce devastating, deadly, and irreversible consequences that will drastically reduce the human population.   It's so severe that some researchers even believe that human extinction is a distinct possibility.   

 Even if you presently live in wealth and privilege, your money is no match for mother nature.   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) Runaway 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. **rs2 ¹    To see a devastating, real-life example of this attitude in action, readers are directed to the TLC-Life-Center's web page titled:  Burning Coal for Power - A Devil's Bargain.   

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."  

The above predictions are based upon irrefutable scientific evidence.   You can ignore the evidence, but if you continue business as usual and you are wrong, you've just given you children and grandchildren a death sentence.    Unfortunately, if we ignore this truth, when the final bell tolls, there will be 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!"  ^**tlc5

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 

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The Frog Analogy

Frogs:   If you put a frog in a pot of hot water, it will  jump out immediately.   If you put that same frog in a pot of cold water, set the pot on the stove and turn on the fire under the pot?    The frog will sit there until the water got so hot that it kills the frog.   

Humans:   In terms of climate change, most people are exhibiting the human equivalent of the frog response.   The present financial crisis is a good example.   Hundreds of professionals  saw it coming and many of them sounded the alarm.   In response, they were simply ignored.

What's Required:   The same thing is happening now regarding Runaway Global Warming.   We are in crisis stage right now,  and yet this deadly, irreversible disaster is being given only secondary notice and all but no action.   The difference here is that by the time the people wake up, Runaway Global Warming  will have become irreversible.   At that point, anything that humans do will be little more than futile gesturing.     

Timing:   We hear talk about making changes is twenty to forty years.   By that time, it will be too late.

We Have About Five Years Before 

Runaway Global Warming  

Becomes Unstoppable !

But please don't believe us, or disbelieve us either.   Examine the evidence for yourself.   Follow the links on this page.

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The Environment and the Economic Crisis

Are Intimately Interrelated

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  The four sections below 
                         offer simple, incredibly effective 
                                              and amazingly rapid resolutions.

On Site 39 -  The New Corporate World Foundation's 
                  Win-Win Business Structure

http://www.New-Corporate-World.info#39  

On Site 53 -  Creating a Public-Service Banking System

http://www.Learn-From-History.com/public-service-banking-system.html#53 ²

On Site 83 -  How to End the Home Foreclosure Crisis

http://www.EconomicSanity101.com#83 ²

On This 38 -  Solving the CO2 Problem   

http://www.HowToReverseGlobalWarming.info/co2-1-solving-the co2-problem.html#38 ²

What If You Are Wrong                      . . . 

Who Is Right? --  Who is Wrong?

If you are discounting the seriousness of the Runaway, Global Climate Change,  here's something you need to consider:

We hold significantly different views of the seriousness of Global Climate Change.   Is it possible that, at this very moment, one of us  could be being wrong?   We can't both be right.   We are both presently making decision based upon what we believe is right.   This brings up two critical questions for each of us  to ask ourselves:  

**   Are the actions I am taking (or not taking) reversible?   Are my mistakes fixable?   If I am wrong, can I change my actions and produce a more desirable result?   

**   What are the consequences, what are the results of my actions (or lack of actions)?  

Have you ever been wrong about something?   While you were being wrong, did you know that you were being wrong?   Of course not.    The essence of being wrong is not knowing that one is wrong.   

Consider these three mistakes:

1**   Joe pack his bags for a journey and he planed on taking three pairs of socks.   Later at his destination, he discovered that he had miscounted and actually have four pairs of socks with him.  This mistake is reversible and the consequences are negligible.    

2**   I'm deeply concerned about Global Climate Change,  so I take whatever actions I can  to clean up the environment.   I make personal changes such as recycling my trash and using energy saving products such as the new, low-power light bulbs and low-water-flush toilets.   My company stops polluting the river.   My company reduces its carbon footprint by fifty percent.    

Later, I learn that Global Climate Change was just a tree-hugger hippy  fairytale.    Although I have no need and no desire to return to my old ways, my mistakes are all reversible.   The consequences are all beneficial for myself, for my fellow humans and for the environment.  There are no losers.

3**   You discount the overwhelming evidence pointing to the disasters of Global Climate Change and as a result of your belief, you simply live your life as you have in the past.      If you are wrong, your  mistakes are NOT fixable.    The consequences are devastating, deadly and irreversible.    Everybody loses!

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Notes and References

**rgw2    **rgw2   Estimates of the actual see level rise range from three feet to about forty feet.   There is enough water frozen in the polar ice caps, in Greenland, Iceland in the mountain glaciers to raise the ocean level by 200 feet.   Even if the rise is only the minimum prediction, ( three feet) that will displace the 100 million people who live within three feet of sea level.  

**rs2   **rs2   There are powerful, special-interest people whose minds are dominated by the mentality (the basic belief system)  of The Grandfather Generation  that can't or won't make changes.   Their lives and the policies and practices that they push onto the rest of us are based on a set of obsolete fundamental, unprovable beliefs.

http://www.ThePeacefulRevolution.com/grandfather-generation.html#57 

**rgw3    **rgw3      Overpopulation    Human overpopulation is aggravating and amplifying every major problem facing humanity today.   For those interested, here's the list:   

Global Climate Change, Poverty, Starvation, Child abuse, Overcrowding, Crime, Drug abuse, Gang violence, Social unrest, Political violence, Wars, Global Terrorism, Rainforest depletion, Environmental destruction, Ozone depletion, Air pollution, Water pollution, Resource depletion, Topsoil destruction, Global warming, Species extinction, and Religious Fanaticism.   There are dozens more that are very subtle and yet still devastating -- dozens that are all but invisible to the untrained eye.

Sooner or later, the human overpopulation problem must be addressed.   If we, as humans don't resolve this problem, mother nature will very soon do it for us.    When that day (or year) arrives, literally billions (that's billions not millions) of human beings will die.  

Here's a sample of what the Christian Bible tells us: