Posted by
Average Voter on Tuesday, August 18, 2009 7:31:46 PM
The effects of humanity's industry, piggy-backing on a normal warming trend that has been going on since the 19th century, is causing temperatures to climb at an unprecedented rate. On that most of science agrees. But what if the centuries-long build-up of gasses and nature itself have conspired to make this trend irreversible?
Where will we put the island peoples whose nations are inexorably disappearing? What can we invent that will keep crops growing in higher temperatures and less water? What can we plan now that will mitigate — and maybe even prevent — some of the worse horrors that we can now quite accurately predict?
Who's islands have been disappearing? And haven't we already developed crops that are more heat resistant? The private sector has been doing that since we learned how to manipulate plant genes.
The hysteria is mind boggling.