Tomgram: Michael Klare, A Thermonuclear Energy Bomb in Christmas Wrappings | TomDispatch
...These days, it increasingly looks like we’ve entered the lottery from hell when it comes to Earth’s ultimate temperature
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This should stop everyone in their tracks. Most scientists believe that an increase of 2 degrees Celsius is about all the planet can accommodate without unimaginably catastrophic consequences: sea-level increases that will wipe out many coastal cities, persistent droughts that will destroy farmland on which hundreds of millions of people depend for their survival, the collapse of vital ecosystems, and far more. An increase of 3.6 degrees C essentially suggests the end of human civilization as we know it.
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At this point, it’s hard even to imagine what a planet that's 3.6 degrees C hotter would be like, though some climate-change scholars and prophets -- like former Vice President Al Gore in An Inconvenient Truth -- have tried. In all likelihood, the Greenland and Antarctica ice sheets would melt entirely, raising sea levels by several dozen feet and completely inundating coastal cities like New York and Shanghai. ...we are all in a race to see who gets to the Apocalypse first.
Michael Klare is a professor of peace and world security studies at Hampshire College
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I am not so sure that 3.6 degrees C is enough to end human civilization. However, I am sure that the proposed centralized heavy handed top down power and control to manage our CO2 emission in an attempt to control the climate will. Almost all of our energy we use to live and run our economy comes from the conversion of carbon based materials into CO2.
Eliminate such low cost industrial quantities of energy and you eliminate technological civilization. Almost all of us living today would not survive such a collapse. It is looking more and more that this is a feature and not a bug of their grand plans.
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