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But in the longer term, isn't it the global cooling rather than the global warming that is more disastrous to human beings and the eco-system?

• MrZongle2 13y ago
  I think this is an excellent question. There's been a lot of panic over the rise of sea levels and a warmer climate, but why exactly is this a world-ending disaster? Yes, the coastlines may change and yes, people will be displaced. Such has been the case for all of recorded history, and far before. Humans can adapt: they have, and they will again. I find the idea of geoengineering far more terrifying than global warming. The community that can't get their models to explain the last few years of observations now wants to throw a massive new wrench into the works? Madness.
  • csense 13y ago
    Exactly. If the sea levels rise ten meters overnight, that would be an enormous catastrophe with unfathomable loss of life. If the sea levels rise ten meters over a couple decades, people will get the heck out when the water's at their ankles, instead of patiently waiting a few years until it's over their heads. Or figure out a local civil engineering solution like diverting the water with levees and dams, that's at worst a local disaster if it doesn't work out.
    • talmand 13y ago
      You are quite wrong good sir, or madam, as someone else in this thread explained that millions will drown with a drastic change in sea levels over 1000 years. Actually, I'm assuming they were greatly exaggerating which seems to be commonplace in these types of discussions so I decided to poke a little fun at that one. Something about learning to swim and inventing something called a boat.