Maybe your right, maybe your wrong-the way i figure, the actual problem is the capacity to cope with these kind of things. I dont know there is enough cause to come up with a legitimate "if-then" scenario, with regard to weather, but a known quantity is that any reaction will be too late in natural disaster terms. What WOULD cause countries to change their lifestyle overnight? An obesity epidemic? Massive tsunami's, wiping out coastal regions? If people arent canny enough to figure out living near a "dormant" volcano, or on a major rift zone, or owning a beach property (japan being a good example) just arent good ideas, the odds of any pragmatic solutions in the event of something catostrophic (such as fast, unprecedented climate change, even outside current theory) are practically nil. Im not being a doom monger here, it just scares me how unprepared people, and by extension, governments are to deal with even known quantities such as earthquakes . Would you agree, geology is a more grounded, and better understood science than climatology?
No. Geology is more grounded in the sense that they dig up stuff from the ground. Geology is also using past data to explain past occurrence. Geology has not explain a lot of the past. Is it the Geologist or seismologist who cannot predict earth quake accurately!!! I live in California. Their prediction of the Big One in the next few hundred years is a concern to me, but I am not moving. I have to go back to what I have said before that human being has never done anything to the earth that are both global AND long term. OK, let say Global means global, long term means at least a thousand year. Nothing. No. Some animals, fish, birds go extinction do not count because they go extinction with or without human!!!
Hmmm. I can see what you mean, but............i think your being churlish as to the value of said data, "past" material in its importance as a predictive measure. Maybe i wasnt addressing the issue directly, but its actually difficult to do so-and if your a "now" type person, i guess it would'nt be a concern, as you state, gotta die sometime, of something. Sure, the predictive value is-unreliable, maybe downright dodgy; that in itself doesnt bother me,its the lack of commonsense, such as the total failure, in fact inability to even provide warnings for event that ARE known. Currently, after the asian new years tsunami wiped out huge areas and populations, lo-and behold now they can provide a tsunami warning throughout the asia pacific in the space of hours. Yay! Except they had all the technology, in fact the information itself, but it wasnt broadcast due to economic concerns, and some previous false alarms. I guess my concern is human nature, incompetence and hysteria, not the actual natural (geophysical ) threat. Humans are their own worst enemy, and your post reminded me of that fact, depressing as it is, despite your complete disregard for species. But you know what? Yeah, heaps of species have been wiped out directly by human activity, the great auk, the dodo, the passenger pidgeon, the thylacine, irish elk, elephant bird, moa, harpagornis, european bison, and maybe even cave bear, just for starters, but-the alternative is they'd have lived as caged exhibits in a zoo, thats the reality. I completely dispute that many of these species would have simply become extint anyway,( in geologic time maybe, yes) but looking at the current situation-they have more dignity as museum exhibits, than being poked, prodded, used for experiments, or entainment by people.
So now our SUVs are causing not Global Warming, but Universal Warming! No longer TEOTWAWKI, it's TEOTUAWKI! All these global warmers are breathing out CO2, and that's causing TEOTUAWKI! Mars is getting warmer. And I bet plenty of other planets have changing weather as well! So stop breathing already you polluters, before you destroy the universe!
Yes, many many species have become extinct on its own, without human being, or even before human being even existed. Who make the ALL the dinosaurs or woolly mammoth extinct? My main point really is that human cannot have any significant effect on nature. It is not possible for human to damage nature or to repair or to change nature. We cannot even stop ONE hurricane, or ONE tornado. Hurricane is a weather system that is local enough, last long enough for human to do something about it. Why haven't we figure out how to change the path of huricanes? And we think if we produce LESS, CO2 and the Global temperature will change?
Well, i completely disagree on a number of points there, in the context of this thread it isnt worth pointing them out though. Your written english is quite dreadfull, (or, good-depends where your coming from) but entirely comprehensible BTW, would you mind telling me where you learnt it, how you learnt it, or your native language?
I am Chinese, came from Hong Kong more than 30 years ago. I attended a Chinese elementary school but an English high school in Hong Kong. In high school, Chinese teachers taught every subject in English, in almost English!!! Except in 7th grade, the English teacher, we call him Mr. Bobo, was from MEXICO. Since Chinese is my native language, I have this heavy Chinese accent in my written English that I have no idea how to correct. It is hopeless. It is Chinglish (Chinese English). I tried, but the MS Word spell & grammar checker couldn't correct my Chinglish.
Wow, thats fascinating, "almost english", the pidgin dialects seem prevalent for sure. This is far more interesting than the thread topic, i thought cantonese, rather than mandarin chinese was the common language of hong Kong? The gap between asian language systems, and european has never been overcome, i think its amazing personally. How on earth, could you pick up classes in english?
One third of ALL species at risk within 50 years: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/mai...AVCBQUIV0?xml=/news/2007/04/06/nspecies06.xml You have absolutely no idea.