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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (237021)6/13/2005 3:34:53 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (3) of 1572953
 
"And yet, it would be more expensive by orders of magnitude to try and stop changes in the environment. "

What do you base this on? If Greenland and Antartica were to melt, much of the heaviest inhabited portions of the globe becomes sea floor property. What is their value? What is the cost of breeding new crops that are appropriate for the day length and seasons of the new climate? Few, if any existing crops will be suitable. Many fruits require a certain number of chill hours to produce, what happens with them? Hotter climates in North America tend to have little or no rain from late June through August, if that is extended up through Canada, that will increase pressure on water supplies and might make farming impossible in the center of the country.

And that doesn't even begin to address what to do if the clathrates become unstable. That could cause the globe to heat up to the point where life becomes very precarious for most of humanity on a time scale measured in years at most.
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