5 Degrees Warmer: Civilization Collapses

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If the world warms by five degrees the planet reaches a nightmare vision of life on Earth as traditional social systems break down.

Six Degrees Could Change the World :
SUN FEBRUARY 10 8P et/9P pt : http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/sixdegrees/?source=4003

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  • @failurbanik Summer Arctic sea ice is expected to be GONE in 5-20 years. Average temp. rise estimates for this century are +1C - 5C (MIT estimates =+3.5 -7.4C).

    It depends on how much climate feedback mechanisms, like ocean warming & methane release kick in.

    Different models predict different scenarios. No one actually knows.

    Search:

    Climate Change: NASA's Eyes on the Earth

    Real Climate

    Climate Progress

    BTW, do you have anything informed or inteiliigent to say?

    Duhh???? Didn't think so.

  • Average Global Temperatures SPIKED +0.6C (+1.08 degrees F) since 1975.

    Summer Arctic Sea Ice has dropped -50% since 1980.

    Since 1950 atmospheric CO2 has spiked +30% over highest levels in 400,000+ years.

    CO2 Ocean Acidification is up +30% since 1900!

    Oops?

    For more data & documented info. on Carbon Dioxide/CO2 Concentration, Global Surface Temperature, Arctic Sea Ice and Land Ice (Antarctica & Greenland) & Sea Levels

    Search: NASA Climate Change

    or go to:

    climate.nasa(dot)gov/keyIndica­tors

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  • More evidence/impacts of climate change series...(please read article before the denier with all the sock puppet accounts censors it)..

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    Brics ties 'helped SA to deliver deal at COP-17'

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    South Africa's relationship with Brazil, Russia, India and China — known as the Brics nations — allowed it to successfully conclude the recent United Nations climate change talks, European Union representatives in South Africa said yesterday.

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    Johannesburg Business Day, South Africa

    22 December 2011

  • More evidence/impacts of climate change series...(please read article before the denier censors it)..

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    The calculus of unsustainability

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    Sustainability is a squishy term—and difficult to operationalize for public policy

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    Perhaps the underlying problem is the public’s lack of understanding about material stocks and flows, integrals and derivatives, i.e., the calculus of unsustainability. In the U.S., we simply do not seem to get it.

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    Environmental Science & Technology

    21 Dec 2011

  • @eagle1O9 That scenario would be if Earth's climate wasn't being altered by extremely high emissions of CO2 caused by humans. But, the opposite of your scenario is bound to happen if immediate action is not taken.

  • the earth's temperature is supposed to stabalize and slowly fall over the next 3 decades

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