Re: [Phys-L] How to deal with climate change?

[Richard Tarara <rtarara@saintmarys.edu>]

On 10/13/2014 8:23 PM, Bernard Cleyet wrote:

> From   http://sealevel.colorado.edu/  sea level rise looks pretty linear 
over the last 20 years at 3.2 +/- .4 mm/yr.  At that rate, a full meter 
rise will take over 300 years.  Lots of other factors here to predict 
ultimate rise and time line.

rwt

> Another Poisson:  And tomorrow’s today:  [14 X 2014 UK]
>
> Entire nation of Kiribati to be relocated over rising sea level threat
> The low-lying Pacific nation of Kiribati is negotiating to buy land in Fiji so it can relocate islanders under threat from rising sea levels.
>
> Entire nation of Kiribati to be relocated over rising sea level threat - Telegraph
>
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/kiribati/9127576/Entire-nation-of-Kiribati-to-be-relocated-over-rising-sea-level-threat.html
>
> "What we need is the international community to come up with an urgent funding package to deal with that ambition, and the needs of countries like Kiribati."
> =========
> We in the USA are most responsible for this.   Better our taxes for this than Iraq?
>
> The Telegraph is a bit late on this.
>
>
> > Again:
> >
> > > > We simply don’t know — and probably can’t know — precisely how climate
> > > > will change or how resilient our society will be to the impacts that
> > > > result.
> > History tells us that it is very hard to predict how a society
> > will respond to stress.
> >
> >   By way of analogy, it is easy to point to a stand of trees
> >   and say "they were killed by beetles".  That may be true in
> >   some narrow sense, but it at the same time it completely misses
> >   the point, because if the trees had not been stressed by climate
> >   change they would have been able to fight off the beetles.
> The AG. business in CA appears doomed and not only from the drought.
>
> Greenhouse Growing: Climate Change is Wreaking Havoc on your Meal Table | California Magazine
>
> http://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/fall-2014-radicals/greenhouse-growing-climate-change-wreaking-havoc-your-meal
>
> and:
>
> Heat and Harvest – the documentary | QUEST
>
> http://science.kqed.org/quest/video/heat-and-harvest/
>
>
>
>
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