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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (25153)	9/7/2009 1:35:44 AM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36918

Yes, I'm a dinkum Kiwi. One of the supposed dire consequences is a very gradual sea level rise <portend dire consequences for the human activity on the planet. > But the rise will be so slow that a 10 month old standing on the shore with the water lapping at their knees, would not drown if they stood there for 100 years - they would grow faster than the sea level would rise. Initially, their knees would get higher faster than the sea level. When they became adults, they'd have the rest of their lives to move uphill to avoid their belly-button getting wet. Even the most slow-witted people should not have a problem with sea level rise caused by global warming. But they should beware of hanging about at sea level. The interface between two fluids is always interesting if there are any disturbances. Earthquakes, volcanoes, land slides and bolides can all cause very rapid sea level rises deep enough to drown the 10 month old before they turn 5. The chance of a large tsunami in the Pacific or Atlantic oceans over the next 100 years is high and the catastrophic consequences so enormous that worrying about 40cm of sea level rise due to global warming is silly. We can quite easily do a lot about CO2 emissions. The point is, we don't need to and stopping them is likely to be counter productive. We can: ..... liquefy CO2 from coal-fired power stations and pipe it under the oceans ..... change vehicle fleets to electric ..... automate them ..... build nuclear power stations ..... migrate to moderate climates ..... insulate ourselves and buildings ..... use cellulose as fuel ..... use cyberspace instead of terrestrial efforts ..... cut human numbers from 6 billion to 1 billion [people are choosing that it seems - see Japan, Germany, Italy, Russia, China, and other places] ..... build vacuum tubes for high speed terrestrial transport instead of aviation - little vehicles could fly in them, using maglev control ..... photovoltaics everywhere ..... superconductors too [that might be a hard one] ..... domesticate fusion processes It wouldn't even be all that expensive to do that. Mqurice