Dry Heat or Wet? 37 comments

27 Nov 2009 @ 20:42, by John Ashbaugh I see in various headlines that there are various arguments going on in global real-time internet sessions about whether or not this phenomenon commonly referred to as global warming, is actually occurring, and if it so, what is causing it, and if it has been ascertained that the madness within humans has brought this about, what if anything can or should be done about it? Let us simplify the debate. We are fried. The only question then becomes one of how long this shall take. Let us propose one human lifetime. Say seventy or eighty years. Or if one might like to reckon time according to the contemporary counting system, pose the question as, What do you think the Earth will look like in 2100? Parenthetically, if you think there is going to be anyone left around who will still be functioning within that calendrical system? What will be the progressions and realignments of dry desert areas to moist rainy portions of the evolving landscapes? Where will the plants grow and what kinds of plants will they be? Ocean currents will change placement, and direction and intensity. As much as is likely so for prevailing wind patterns. No one can now really tell what the overall number for the planetary population will be, or how, actually, they will live. A new technologically superior civilization may comprise some number of the perhaps half a billion people who occupy the planet. Indigenous peoples in many places are already well equipped, mentally and practically, to keep their traditions alive. None of the current publicity stunt climate conferences are going to affect one Iota of anything that is contributing to the currently evolving methane hydrate catastrophe. Might want to build those windmill farms in territories near and around the Arctic circle. Ever notice that big swath of desert cutting across all of northern Africa through the Arabian peninsula and across the Middle East and into the Gobi? Now let’s just suppose that that whole ribbon of sand and rocks nudged north some ten degrees latitude, some twenty degrees latitude, or thirty, or what? That’s on the Eurasian side. No telling what might come around on the once lush continent of North America. All lines in the dirt formerly known as boundaries will no longer exist. The great California breadbasket might dry up like a canyon on Mars. The Mississippi would become like the Rio Grande, a thin ribbon of water winding through a desert. From the Rockies, to the Great Lakes, to the shores of the Potomac, tumbleweed territory. The Amazon, sub-Saharan African, southeast Asian, and Indonesian rainforest belt, with the richness of wind currents and moisture that have nurtured its profuseness until now, will adjust in some unforeseeable way to the overall set of changing weather patterns. Moisture and humidity should be readily available in this transitional phase of planetary evolution. Where the rain will fall, no one yet does know. **^-_-^** J.A.

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