Yea. Its called a "nuclear winter"
The globe has been cooling, and warming, and cooling and warming for as long as its been in existence and on average around every 10,000 years or so. If you look at a certain famous persons hoaky stick graph. You will see we are pretty much right on schedule.
Man.. or "Human kind" to be PC has been forced to up and move due to weather and climate changes for as long as we have been guests on this blue/green orb. Thee is no reason whatsoever to think that outside of a worldwide cataclysmic event such as an asteroid strike or the sun exploding these patterns wont continue indefinitely.
Yeah, but 10,000 years on a geological scale is nothing. If you're actually proposing that that cycle grinding to a halt in the space of 200 years (and I'm not saying it has or necessarily will) is just to expected at some point, you're an idiot. That's not how things work.
Ok so maybe the earth is warming. So what. Its been warmer before as is indicated by the fossils in the rock being found under where the ice is.
That's not why there's fossils in polar and subpolar regions. It's called plate tectonics, dummy. The surface is floating around on an ocean of molten rock, and slides around.
A ten million years ago, the continents weren't anywhere near where they are now. Same goes for ten million years before that, and before that, ad infinitum. Well, at least back until the crust solidified, and tectonics began.
But point is that the temperature had damn all to do with fossil formation.
It isnt global warming we fear or cooling either for that matter. Its change. Fear of the unknown. The different. Ok. So maybe it will sop raining in some areas. It also means it will probably rain more in others. "The seas will rise" Oh my goodness. like thats never happened before!
Okay, then I'm officially putting you in charge of the problem. Your job is now to make sure we have enough food at an affordable cost. Also you can't turn away refugees, since you'll probably say it's up to them to take care of themselves, which would include moving out of a barren desert.
Also, you're officially in charge of relocating everyone on the coast inland. Specifically, you're required to salvage 75% of everything, so we don't leave tens of trillions worth of progress at the bottom of our newly expanded coastal shelf.
Fear not little ones. Everything will be fine in spite of what the chicken little alarmists would have you believe
Yanno whats going to happen? Human kind will do what we have always done what we have proved time and time again to be superior at with much much less technology available as we have now. We will adapt and find new ways to exploit whatever happens. And this is already beginning to take place as as new shipping routes are being opened.
Instead of worrying about how to stop or reverse the inevitable. Think on how to take advantage of it. You'll sleep better at night if you look at it not so much as a threat. But as a new opportunity
Yeah, adapt, exploit, take advantage of. Excellent verbiage for dealing with crisis. I'm sure some love muffin can find a way to profit off of NYC being flooded out and Africa becoming a desert. Because that's all that matters. Exploitation of misfortune to improve your own life.
