To Biblical Proportions

BRT has examined climate change for 12+ years with each year showing how CC is inching ever closer to Biblical Proportions as temperates continue to rise at an alarming rate due to not only the increase in fossil fuel emissions but also to the increase of C02 and Methane in the far north driven, in large part, by the conversion of the Arctic from heat reflector to heat sink due to the loss of ice & it's reflective albedo that kept earth cool for millennia. With this being said, the feedback loops that feed off this loss of ice and continued fossil fuel burning promises to amplify the impact of CC in truly terrifying ways if nothing is immediately done to move toward sustainables as man moves further into the 21st century.

The current climate crisis, they say, is larger and more complex than any humans have ever dealt with before. General climate models — like the one that the United Nations' Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) used in 2018 to predict that a global temperature increase of 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius) could put hundreds of millions of people at risk — fail to account for the sheer complexity of Earth's many interlinked geological processes; as such, they fail to adequately predict the scale of the potential consequences. The truth, the authors wrote, is probably far worse than any models can fathom.

It gets better ...

What might an accurate worst-case picture of the planet's climate-addled future actually look like, then? The authors provide one particularly grim scenario that begins with world governments "politely ignoring" the advice of scientists and the will of the public to decarbonize the economy (finding alternative energy sources), resulting in a global temperature increase 5.4 F (3 C) by the year 2050. At this point, the world's ice sheets vanish; brutal droughts kill many of the trees in the Amazon rainforest (removing one of the world's largest carbon offsets); and the planet plunges into a feedback loop of ever-hotter, ever-deadlier conditions.

"Thirty-five percent of the global land area, and 55 percent of the global population, are subject to more than 20 days a year of lethal heat conditions, beyond the threshold of human survivability," the authors hypothesized.

End game ...

The result, according to the new paper, is "outright chaos" and perhaps "the end of human global civilization as we know it."

Note: As often said in BRT, we haven't even talked about environmental degradation, resource depletion and the issue of too many people, let alone the slow reduction of intelligence caused by the injection of more C02 into the atmosphere (415/ppm & climbing) as C02 makes one dumber by depriving us rubes of enough oxygen to remain relatively smart. Ask WWII submariners about this inconvenient fact while perusing this blurb. Yours truly certainly has.