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To: Bearcatbob who wrote (13552)3/24/2012 11:44:42 AM
From: Wharf Rat  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 85487
 
"the world was designed to deal with itself."

Gaia hypothesis, or, as I like to call it, planetary physiology.
en.wikipedia.org

It's gonna deal with us just like we deal with bacteria...run a fever hot enuf to kill us....

Climate and mass human mortality

Writing in the British newspaper The Independent in January 2006, Lovelock argues that, as a result of global warming, "billions of us will die and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic where the climate remains tolerable" by the end of the 21st century. [24] He has been quoted in The Guardian that 80% of humans will perish by 2100 AD, and this climate change will last 100,000 years. According to James Lovelock, by 2040, the world population of more than six billion will have been culled by floods, drought and famine. Indeed "[t]he people of Southern Europe, as well as South-East Asia, will be fighting their way into countries such as Canada, Australia and Britain". [25]
en.wikipedia.org



To: Bearcatbob who wrote (13552)3/24/2012 11:55:27 AM
From: sm1th  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 85487
 
It is like a big energy balance. If the heat is one place it is not somewhere else. I am damn glad it was here this year.

And many of the places having record warmth this year had record snow last winter. That was also caused by global warming.