Re: [Phys-l] H. Sapiens

[Bernard Cleyet <bernardcleyet@redshift.com>]

I was thinking of all in the last five years or so.  A few ten million here and a few ten million there, rather soon it adds up to a "real" number.  

OK  the pop. of Pakistan (0.166 trillion) is only two and half percent of the total and only about a third have been displaced.  Many will die and the rest probably won't reproduce soon.  If one adds in what's coming, we think?, it will be more than a blip.


On 2010, Sep 22, , at 18:42, Richard Tarara wrote:

> And yes, recent floods are imperceptible blips.  As I stated 
> earlier--300-400,000 deaths (Indian Ocean Tsunami) accounted fora loss of 
> about 0.5% of the yearly INCREASE in population--for that year only.  One 
> percent of humans now numbers close to 70 MILLION.  This same kind of 
> numeracy impacts other 'favorite' topics--like thinking about those 'nasty 
> old top 1% of wealth owners in the U.S.' 


and

Krakatoa** only produced one year of cold.  We'll need one super bomb a year for, what ...     20 years to "solve"  the CO2 problem





On 2010, Sep 22, , at 19:14, chuck britton wrote:

> Nuclear Winter could be a way to reverse the current Global Warming.
> A single nuclear blast  could reproduce the Krakatoa volcano's cooling effect.
> Giving us enough time to remove CO2 from the atm and sequester it 
> under seas etc.


**   More likely Tambora  note a cooling is more effecting than a warming and the social effects, inter alia The Vamprye and Frankenstein! found below:


 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer