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| corky | Aug 1 2015, 11:25 AM Post #1 |
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I'm in the middle of reading some reports on the impacts of unstable climate/ climate change on the ability of North American businesses to count on the production from other areas of the world, extremely interesting. Time to sit back and think a bit about the changing world. How secure are the industrial cities of the world, how secure is the transport system of the world in terms of moving masses of goods? Corky |
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| Telcoman | Aug 1 2015, 11:28 AM Post #2 |
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Climate change is going to throw everything off, and be extremely expensive. That is why i don't understand all these right wing nut jobs claiming making the necessary changes will bankrupt us. The cost of doing that is miniscule compared the cost of dealing with it after. They are naive enough to fall for the political propaganda financed by the large oil companies, etc.. |
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| corky | Aug 1 2015, 11:39 AM Post #3 |
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Paul, Does "Let them eat cake" ring any bells? Much can be learned from history. Corky |
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| Telcoman | Aug 1 2015, 11:41 AM Post #4 |
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Yep. |
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| corky | Aug 1 2015, 12:13 PM Post #5 |
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Paul, You really should read "The Accidental Super Power" by Peter Zeihan. Corky Edited by corky, Aug 1 2015, 03:24 PM.
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| corky | Aug 1 2015, 03:44 PM Post #6 |
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Social and political change in North America is going to be hugely drive by the disintegration in various parts of the world. The rebuilding of and extension of North American infrastructure, likely on a very socialistic theme, will be a very necessary work. Multiple and strong heavy transit lines with cross connects going both east/west and north/south will need to be built. Water disbursement systems are also socialist endeavors that will need to undertaken. Corky |
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| Deleted User | Aug 2 2015, 08:49 AM Post #7 |
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Change will take place relatively slowly letting humanity gradually adapt. |
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| Brewster | Aug 2 2015, 10:09 AM Post #8 |
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Sorry, Thump - That does not compute. If we make our changes slowly, Ma Nature will have more time to create a bigger mess... A mess so severe we will not be ABLE to adapt... If you're talking about Ma Nature making HER changes slowly, remember this:
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| Telcoman | Aug 2 2015, 10:30 AM Post #9 |
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I cant agree with that either thump. There are too many issues, First of all it can change very quickly even naturally, and it has done that in the past. We know from past climate disasters induced by natural causes, like super volcanoes, that climate change once it starts is extremely quick. In fact they now believe ice ages came about over only a few years. And ice ages could be triggered by global warming and the gulf stream stopping in its tracks. The world population is so great now compared to back then, people do not have freedom of movement. We are only just starting to understand what a fine balance climate is, it takes little to trigger it in one direction or another. When we were several 1000 hunter gatherers, it did not matter as much, but with a society dependent on technology to support a huge population, it would be most unpleasant. We don't even come close to understand how rapid changes in Climate come about and we are conducting a mass experiment on a global scale to see what happens when we significantly change the composition of the atmosphere. Not very smart. |
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| Deleted User | Aug 2 2015, 01:57 PM Post #10 |
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I agree with the super volcanos. I thought we were talking about the usual GW. |
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| corky | Aug 2 2015, 03:25 PM Post #11 |
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Thumper, What is usual Global Warming? How many times does washing out the rails and roads east and north from L.A. take to cripple the importation of products from off-shore? Might not be dramatic, just a slow and tedious grinding away of infrastructure. Slow and tedious to us is just an eye blink to nature. Corky |
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