DGBAMA
Well-Known Member
The last time global warning was a "frenzied" topic i experienced a record cold winter. Lol.
Unfortunately, in all of the 5 mass extinction epochs in the history of life on earth (6 if you count the present), the brunt of the ultimate extinctions of species (95% of all existing species during the end-Permian extinction, which was likely due to climate change) is borne by those species near or at the top of their food chains.
Being at the top of a food chain implies a dependency on a complex web of food species (plant or animal). Massive perturbations of these webs are most likely to knock off the physically largest representatives of a family of organisms, as well as those species dependent on a greater complexity of the ecological system--the top predators.
Forget humans. We're toast. (May as well sign up for the one-way Mars mission.) But what about tobacco? Given that Nicotiana tabacum and, nearly to the same extent, N. rustica are domesticated, have been propagated by humans for probably 12,000 years or more, and usually do not spontaneously spill enough seed from their seed pods to maintain an untended stand for more than a few years, these two species are unlikely to survive a multi-decade (more likely multi-century) climatic disturbance (with the only surviving humans fading away on Mars). Non-cultivated species of Nicotiana would have a better chance of surviving.
Maybe the next top predator will figure out the tobacco domestication process, using the surviving Nicotiana species. If only we could find a way to pass along a copy of the FTT forum for them.
Bob
1) First, reliably forecast the weather next Tuesday. Only then attempt to tell me what the temperature will be a hundred years hence.
2) First, avert one minor tornado away from a trailer park. Only then attempt to control the glacial epochs.
Baby steps. That's how to earn credibility.
1) First, reliably forecast the weather next Tuesday. Only then attempt to tell me what the temperature will be a hundred years hence.
2) First, avert one minor tornado away from a trailer park. Only then attempt to control the glacial epochs.
Baby steps. That's how to earn credibility.
Entire communities in Japan are now under water a result of an earthquake in 2011. Some elevations dropped as much as 10 feet. I know Florida hasn't experienced an earthquake, but there are many reasons that cause water levels to rise.
Just curious...what was the water level compared to the top of the seawall before global warming?
Weird...
Our destiny is not self extinction. We know nothing compared to what will be learned during the next 100 or 1000 years. I just wish I could see what we're doing in 10,000 years
NOAA 20Feb2014 said:The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported Thursday that Earth was 1.17 degrees warmer last month than the 20th century average. Since records began in 1880, only 2002, 2003 and 2007 started off warmer than this year.
Almost all of Africa, South America and Australia and most of Asia and Europe were considerably warmer than normal. China and France had their second warmest Januaries. Land in the entire Southern Hemisphere was hottest for January on record.
While more than half of America shivered last month, it was one of the few populated spots on Earth cooler than normal.
http://phys.org/news/2014-02-world-fourth-warmest-january.html
Believe me that's COLD for Mississippi. I'm over it. Do you hear me, I'm over it. Spring were art thou.We almost broke an all time record low here in Jan. An it was the coldest in 20 years.
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