No matter if the climate evolves into hotter or cooler
Recently climate change skeptics have unearthed the memory lane of the climate crisis Global Cooling. In the 70s an unexpected drop in temperatures while few years made meteorologists postulated that a new ice age came. Obviously if they mistake then why aren’t they mistaking now? The answer is the same as I said in previous writings, since 1850 approx. that temperatures have a tendency to rise exponential and what is happening in one year or two isn’t significant; we can see that kind of fluctuations are doing in this upward trend.
The assertion that the heat of recent years is only a fluctuation of the climate isn’t entirely true. If it would be a fluctuation in temperature, trend moves around a center line, and this isn’t observed even we move our data to many years before 1850. Precisely this was the mistake that made these meteorologists to take only a short interval data.
But this statement we must also include those who believe that the change to cold is real. In this position we can find two tends: first recommends quiet because if cold will come we can continue burn; and second says that is a luck that we are burning hydrocarbons because this conduct prevents humanity to die in cold. See us both assertions.
Who aren’t worry because we go to cold climate I must remember that in the poles biologic activity is less than tropical hot deserts, if we can compare cold and hot desert. The cold freezes the water and paralyzing chemical reactions in biology. Perhaps we think in a very cold weather just we warmed the ice to get water, but glaciation for incredible than it seems, doesn’t make great frozen extensions; basically it makes dry cold deserts as a Gobi, the most dry dessert in Earth is precisely in Antarctica. This is because cold air (under 0C digress) has little quantity of water, and the most quantity is leaving in coast when air come into extremely cooler continent, the continental glacier only growth in coast, and interior have permanent glacier if they was making in the transition to glaciation or in hot fluctuations. Thus many of the areas currently inhabited will not be because there is no water though not covered by a glacier.
The second group lies directly. Really they believe that we are improving the planetary climate returning CO2 captured in eons by biology, but they want to people believe it. Nothing improves or worsens the climate because the climate is neither better nor worse ever, it is only with respect to the various beings that suffer. In this sense the temperatures can climb as in the Cretaceous. But Cretaceous mammals were larger than a mouse. And we think that this was because the dinosaurs were great and so were not seen. The reason is more prosaic, our lungs have a capacity to absorb oxygen that is in proportion to the relative concentration of CO2/O2, if it grows (increases CO2) our lungs lose their ability to absorb, then or body decreases to decrease oxygen need or grown the lungs, in this case adds a heavier organ that requires more effort (and oxygen to move) and need more muscles for breathing (and hence more oxygen), we can see as the solution is reduced. So in the Cretaceous we should be of the size of the Smurfs, an adaptive change at this size isn’t be able in two or three generations, which means that the fate of humanity in these conditions is the extinction for unfeasible.Unfortunately all this fuss is just the cooler climate due to the need to reassure the population if they thought stop using of hydrocarbons. Their message is clear: meteorologists are wrong on climate change and if there are changes in our attitude and the ability to adapt absorb them. They don’t argue and not need it’s just a strategy to justify the inertia of consumption of oil and coal as I talk about in "Why oil and coal consumption increasing day by day?" that many benefits are reporting to energy companies.
No matter the direction of change. If it would be hot or cold it will change the distribution of plants, waters and coasts in the world, in first approximation, and living conditions in general. As I said several times eventually return to a glacial environment, but this doesn’t exclude a very warm period of several thousand years before, that is terribly long from the human point of view but nothing in geological level.
But the problem is how we are changing the boundary conditions. Today we are releasing CO2 so that we have put the concentration of this on levels of 2 million years before. Not only the temperature depends on CO2, and even if it’s this, the current melting of the ice until today permanent is stopping its increase, but How long climate keeps this situation? We don’t know but how much more are displaced from the stationary situation more violent is way to the next.
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