April 24, 2025
"Climatologists are pessimistic that political leaders will take any positive action to compensate for the climatic change, or even to allay its effects. They concede that some of the more spectacular solutions proposed, such as melting the arctic ice cap by covering it with black soot or diverting arctic rivers, might create problems far greater than those they solve. But the scientists see few signs that government leaders anywhere are even prepared to take the simple measures of stockpiling food or of introducing the variables of climatic uncertainty into economic projections of future food supplies. The longer the planners delay, the more difficult will they find it to cope with climatic change once the results become grim reality.”
Newsweek, April 28, 1975
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Posted by: Mike at April 24, 2025 10:22 PM (SqqvB)
In 536 a series of volcanic eruptions pretty much blotted out the sky all over the western world. It was horrendous in Ireland, where the peaceful and prosperous civilization of the time fell completely due to two whole years of near complete darkness (there is no tree ring growth for those two years anywhere on the Islands.) The rest of Europe suffered from dimming of the sun and what is now called the volcanic winter by scientists. Imagine if that happens again!
And essentially these idiots who want to geoengineer to "solve" co2 driven warming (something still not proven) could well trigger another such volcanic winter. There is a reason why Europe exoperienced the Dark Ages immediately after this climate event. It wrecked agriculture in the whole of the western world.
Your other examples are entirely possible too and have happened in days gone by. Our fault line at New Madrid here in Missouri, for instance, has been giving off a lot of tremors of late - many more than we've had in a long time - and it could blow. The worst earthquake in the Continental U.S. was the 1811 New Madric quake, which turned the Mississippi river backwards for weeks.
There are a lot of things that could happen and that these folks could worry about. A fraction of one degree of atmospheric warming isn't one of them.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at April 25, 2025 07:44 AM (nON5q)
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