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Because if it is indicative of a warming planet (which this particular event may or may not be, although the warming of the planet is beyond doubt at this point
by thawaway1837 7y ago
Because if it is indicative of a warming planet (which this particular event may or may not be, although the warming of the planet is beyond doubt at this point), then life for human being is gonna get much worse because we have spent centuries setting up civilization based on environmental conditions which are not true anymore.
As a result you will see mass migrations as earlier fertile regions become arid, and people compete for scarce resources, exposure to diseases that populations in a region do not have immunity for, and because the changes are due to warming (I.e. an increase in energy in the ecosystem) the greater energy means extreme weather events will become even more extreme, and milder ones will become extreme.
- chewz 7y agoOK so people will move from Africa to Siberia. Why is it a problem?
- nothrabannosir 7y agoFor one, the Russians wouldn’t let them in. A few million Syrians coming into Europe was called a “migration crisis”. What will we call it when a billion people move out of the equator?
- chewz 7y agoLast few thousand years in history of Euroasia is about peeple moving in large numbers during dry spells. Where is the tragedy? The end of the world as we know it?
- freehunter 7y agoThe last few thousand years of Euroasia is about massive world changing wars because of people moving in large numbers during dry spells. It’s not exactly a pleasant thing to live through.
- pinkfoot 7y agoOther than my house and life savings are in Africa? Trite drivel
- staticvoidmaine 7y agoYou’re at least giving the appearance of being very self-centered. It’s appalling.
- chewz 7y agoNo I am just really enjoying mild winters instead of seeing the end of the world or worrying about processes beyond my control.
- dragonwriter 7y agoYou start with no,and then the rest of your post describes something exactly in line with what you are denying.
- thawaway1837 7y agoI think you don’t understand what a warmer planet actually means. I think you fundamentally don’t understand what temperature means. Temperature is not a primary property. It’s an emergent property which reflects the amount of energy in a system. A warmer planet may lead to a few mild winters. But it will also lead to many more extreme winters. And storms, etc, will all be turbocharged. Mild winters are almost certainly gonna be the minority. Average temperatures will be higher, but the extremes will become even more extreme. Because, once again, a warmer planet means more energy.
- anigbrowl 7y agoYou're being trolled. Flag it instead of taking the bait over and over.
- dragonwriter 7y agoIt's a problem, among many other reasons, because warming has a set of positive feedback loops — e.g., ice-albedo feedback: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice%E2%80%93albedo_feedback https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice%E2%80%93albedo_feedback — so if Africa becomes uninhabitable from uncontrolled warming, it's only a matter of time before Siberia (and Antarctica) does, too, and you run out of places to move.