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Interstellar? Scientist Warns Earth Is Now Halfway To Being Inhospitable
"The planet has been our best friend by buffering our actions and showing its resilience, but for the first time ever," warns Swedish environmental professor Johan Rockstrom, "we might shift the planet from friend to foe." As RT notes, Rockstrom explains there are nine "planetary boundaries" in a new paper published in Science – and human beings have already crossed four of them.
Environmental science professor Johan Rockstrom, the executive director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre in Sweden, argues that there are nine “planetary boundaries” in a new paper published in Science – and human beings have already crossed four of them.
Those nine include carbon dioxide concentrations, maintaining biodiversity at 90 percent, the use of nitrogen and phosphorous, maintaining 75 percent of original forests, aerosol emissions, stratospheric ozone depletion, ocean acidification, fresh water use and the dumping of pollutants.
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Rockstrom’s planetary boundary theory was first conceived in 2007. His new paper reveals that because of climate stability, which began when the Ice Age ended 11,000 years ago, a planetary calm helped our ancestors to cultivate wheat, domesticate animals, and launch industrial and communications revolutions. But those advances have strained the stability of the planet, and Rockstrom says we have broken four boundaries: too much nitrogen has been added to ecosystems, too many forests have been cut down, the climate is changing too quickly and species are going extinct at too great a rate.
Speaking to RT’s Ben Swann, Professor of Ethics Bron Taylor from the University of Florida said that we have accelerated the extinction crisis through deforestation and ocean acidification, a development which is driving species to extinction.
“[Human] beings have increased, even from 1925, from 2 billion – which is considered to be a sustainable population for human beings, according to northern European consumption standards – to 7.2 billion at this point,” he said.
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Pretty much...
Nailing a consulting gig that pays a quarter yard also has something to do with it...
My days of being a regular are over though but every now and then I need to be reminded of just how deluded people are...
All that pollution from 1.6 billion Chinese actually causes cooling. Or haven't you heard? That the bird is equal to or greater than the word!
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/889897
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE7634IQ20110704?irpc=932
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/jul/04/sulphur-pollution-chi...
And I purposefully chose liberal lunatic sites that usually pump the AGW crap so you get to see them admit that they don't know what they are talking about.
Bet these people real money and watch them STFU right quick.
Admit it. ANTHROPOGENIC GLOBAL WARMING IS A FRAUD, A LIE, A HOAX THAT IS MEANT TO ELIMINATE YOUR FREEDOM PERIOD!!!
Psst...
Aerosols don't last long.... C02 does..
Why don't you admit that you really know SFA about the science and give us all a break...
You apparently don't know shit because you apparently do t read the news and yes it is yahoo news who is also I bed with the "concensus" and now look what they print. Never heard about this do ya only people are responsible and we are not what god has it entered and we are t even natural.
You haven't posted I. A while and maybe you should keep it that way seeing as how you commits are about as informative as Hillary Clinton and her emails.
Go away
Context is everything...
And you missed it...
Completely...
Not to mention the difference between long term effects of S02 and C02 emissions after they stop...
Remember back in the late 90's when that huge chunk of ice had fallen of the Antarctic and all the scientists pointed to it as prove of global warming?
You know what resides below the surface of that shelf? About 14 volcanoes that heat the ice into hot water that cuts through the glacier making itlike Swiss cheese. When seismic activity from the volcanoes plus SLHF (surface latent heat flux) shakes the glacier well what do you think will eventually happen.
http://icecap.us/images/uploads/AntarcticVolcanoes2.jpg
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v438/n7064/abs/nature04237.html
Man made global warming is a hoax, a reason to tax everything, a reason to control everything and most importantly to have an excuse to reduce the population of the planet by government dictate/force.
Greenhouse mechanism is real. We dump an inordinate amount of greenhouse gases into the air and we remove the the trees that act as a sink for them. This isn't a hoax, this is proven scientific fact....sorry if it bothers you so much.
No trees have ever been planted to replace all the trees logged. Right?
Fuck you people are STUPID.
You're an idiot.
Once the climate changed the tree line moves so the trees are unable to grow back again if planted. Depends on which terrain/soil and tree species but it's happening now.
PLUS there's the droughts: once the water moves, the rain-fall patterns change, what are you going to grow?
California's fucked and global warming is a big part of the reason. It was already on the knife's edge as a desert artificially irrigated.
climate scientist = oxymoron
Inhospitable?...
Starbucks is tackling race relations one cup at a time
http://money.cnn.com/2015/03/16/news/companies/starbucks-race-relations/...
"Not only can Starbucks baristas make the perfect latte for customers, now CEO Howard Schultz is encouraging them to discuss how to improve race relations in America at the same time."
~//~
Red Ice Radio
Hollywoodism: The Ideology that has Devoured Western Culture
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwgLczzn5gk (1:46:43)
Science is REALLY heading into the toilet. I'm a scientist and would no longer consider it much of an honor to have one of my papers accepted in such a rag.
Yes, the CO2 thing. I don't understand why they keep so worried about the CO2 limit. In earth's past history, it was many times what it is now, and yet here we are. http://geocraft.com/WVFossils/Carboniferous_climate.html
but we are here now because it's not that way now - bring it back and we are dead.
The two can't co-exist.
'And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.'
Matthew 24:14Greenpeace founder - Patrick Moore - Global Warming is a FRAUD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHZKo13HV2A
John Coleman - founder of the weather network (not the weather underground) says global warming is a FRAUD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRQS5RhrwLA
The basic concerns that runaway greenhouse gas accumulations would cause climate change continue to be realistic, scientifically sound, mechanisms. Therefore, it is wrong to say unequivocally that human driven climate change is nothing but a FRAUD, since the greenhouse gas mechanisms exist. However, climate models have been quite wrong in their predictions for a score of years because they did not include enough about the Sun and other cosmic factors (which may not be currently understood well enough by anybody, anyways.)
It is a gross over-simplification to say that global warming is a FRAUD, when what has happened is that the expected consequences of the greenhouse gas mechanisms have been mitigated by other cosmic factors, which had been excluded from the previously developed climate models, so that those predictions have ended up being seriously off for more than a decade.
I have still never seen anyone disprove the basic simple science, which has been around for more than a Century, regarding the fundamental existence of the greenhouse gas mechanisms. That was always the basic foundation of the global warming worries. However, I have found that there were way more complicated feedback loops, and cosmic factors, which were not fully understood, and therefore, not included into the previous climate models, and therefore, their predictions have be seriously different that what has actually been observed.
However, almost none of that kind of more sophisticated understanding is playing any kind of welcome role inside of the basic social systems based on backing up lies with violence, which are dominated by arrogant assholes. Instead, all of the scandals regarding rigged and distorted data, and over-confidence in the previous models, have all contributed to the WRONG IDEA that the greenhouse gas mechanisms are NOT a real problem.
Of course, by the time the natural spirals spin through, and then the greenhouse gas mechanisms which were always accumulating throughout those phases return worse than ever, the human world will still be dominated by arrogant assholes, and therefore, those problems then will be dealt with even more insanely than they are now. I continue to expect that the global warming pause will not last, but rather, that eventually warming will return much worse than ever ... Indeed, the only changes will be ones of timing, and result in even more wild oscillations in the future ...
I have been thinking about those issues for several decades, and I have recorded my study of that issue in this thread here: Humans blamed for climate change. The issue is extremely complex, and nobody actually knows for sure. However, I tend to the view that we are currently getting a lucky break that the Solar and Cosmic Factors have been preventing what would have otherwise have become runaway global warming ...BUT, I expect that eventually those more cosmic factors will go through their spirals, after which the reality of global warming from greenhouse gas mechanisms will come back with a vengeance.
Since human society is controlled by systems of lies backed by violence, in which there is almost nothing but organized crime, surrounded by controlled opposition, the world will surely continue to be dominated by arrogant assholes with evil ulterior agendas. In that context, the lucky break we appear to be getting at the present time will have probably succeeded in creating even more crazy confusion, and scrambled up any remotely possible hopes that human civilization would adapt more intelligently to its environmental problems. Indeed, the pattern of comments and votes on this article above on Zero Hedge mostly confirmed the degree to which society is dominated by arrogant assholes.
My opinions tend towards the view that climate science is extremely complicated and not close to being fully understood by anyone, but nevertheless, my overall sense of the situation is that human beings are going to collectively commit suicide, because of the ways that developing science and technology ends up being channeled through social pyramid systems based on backing up lies with violence.
The threat from runaway greenhouse gas mechanisms appears to currently be masked by other cosmic factors mostly cancelling that out. That is NICE for the older generations, that may well continue to be able to indulge in destroying the habitability of the planet for future generations, throughout the rest of their natural life time. However, when the natural spirals of those more cosmic factors have spun through, I would expect that the accumulating threat from greenhouse gas mechanisms will be back, stronger and worse than previously predicted ... BUT, not yet, and not as previously was being predicted ... but rather, as temporarily postponed, and then suddenly worse than ever before!
Anyway, whatever the truth turns out to be will not matter that much, because there are no good reasons to doubt that human civilization will continue to be dominated by arrogant assholes who will rationalize and justify their self-indulgent life-styles causing mass extinctions of most of the life on the planet, as well as eventually the human species too.
What pause you're talking about dude? Warming hasn't stopped. It has continued and 2014 has been the warmest on record. Yeah, East Coast US has had unusual cold (attributed to the jet stream air current being slowed down by a warmer atmosphere), but the rest of the world keeps feeling the heat.
The degree to which civilization is controlled by lies backed by violence makes ameliorating global environmental problems practically impossible.
"...we have accelerated the extinction crisis through deforestation and ocean acidification"
The ocean is alkaline, not acidic.
And what would you call "increase in pH" if not acidification?
You are working overtime lying to yourself buddy...
moneybots works hard doing that regarding issues like 9/11 Truth too!
Another FOOKIN Climate Alarmist that won't address the Government programs that are engaged in man made anthropomorphic Malthusian Check's. Created / induced by ENMOD / Eco-Terrorsim / HAARP / SRM etc. The books are cooked so the data can be manipulated ofr the Agenda & line the coffers w/ revenue. Very simple & very real.
Welcome to the Dystopic Orwellian Zone.
The stoopid it burns....
Meanwhile, over at Neven's Arctic Sea Ice Blog:
"On February 25, 2015, Arctic sea ice extent appeared to have reached its annual maximum extent, marking the beginning of the sea ice melt season. This year’s maximum extent not only occurred early; it is also the lowest in the satellite record. However, a late season surge in ice growth is still possible. NSIDC will post a detailed analysis of the 2014 to 2015 winter sea ice conditions in early April."
http://neven1.typepad.com/blog/2015/03/early-record-late-record.html
19MAR15, 18:14 comment
Welcome to Spring 2015. The last melt before Paris begins...
I am dumber for reading this.
The pretense of knowledge is strong with this one.
What is most sad is that SOME environmental issues are LEGIT, worth paying attention to, and worth finding the most efficient and practical ways to do something about.
HOWEVER...
The vast majority of well meaning folks in the environmental movement have been totally scammed and hoodwinked by financial and political scams pretending to be environmentalism. So now all their efforts simply further globalist authoritarianism, and the enrichment of predators running scams like "carbon credits", "carbon taxes" and other blatant scams.
Of course the vast majority of people with other agendas and priorities have also been scammed by the same predators-that-be, so the environmentalists have lots of company. They're essentially all pushing for globalist dictatorship for one reason or other.
Humans are finished.
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If humans just stopped dumping chemical waste into the (air, land, water) environment, that would go a long way towards keeping the environment in good shape. Which I infer was the environmentalist focus in the 1960s/1970s. Now they pay little attention to this biggest of all problems, and work to implement globalist dictatorship to "solve" non-existent problems like AGW.
Finally- the truth. Founder of Greenpeace admits Global Warming is a lie. Thank You. ?#TRUTH? http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2015/03/20/why-i-am-climate-...
He's not a founder: he's also been funded by the US nuclear energy lobbying industry for the last 8+ years. He left Greenpeace about 20 odd years ago.
However, you have hit a real factual element.
Here's James Lovelock, scientist responsible for modern ecology and Gaia theory stating (without qualifications) that nuclear energy has to be the way forward. I'll even make the links a "left" paper who you probably imagine are rabidly anti-nuclear:
Guardian - Nuclear power is the only way forward, 2000
Independent - Nuclear power is the only way forward 2004
Guardian - enjoy it while you can, in 20 years it'll hit the fan 2008
Unless you missed it - Moore is paid by the industry, Lovelock isn't - both did the science a good 15 years ago, crunched the numbers and came to the conclusion that nuclear energy was the only way to stop CO2 getting radically out of hand. So, they've been touting it ever since, via differing ideological interest groups, to various ideological groups with differing ideological covers.
Spoiler: They think you're all fucked, and have been lobbying for sanity for 20+ years each, in whatever manner they can. It's not a case of "TEEHEE WE WERE RIGHT", it's a case of "THESE FUCKERS ARE SO DUMB WE HAVE TO SORT IT OUT BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY".
The fact you don't understand this is sadly why it was done.
If it's from Heartland it's lies right off the bat.
ref. chapters 5 and 6
http://www.stopthecrime.net/docs/Report_from_Iron_Mountain.pdf
plan moving FORWARD
The immediate concern is with the levels CO2 and its "warming factor cousin" - CH3 - due to be released from its hydrate form from the Oceans and Permafrost. Methane allegedly is 20 or so times the Greenhouse Gas CO2 is, so we just can't ignore all the sinkholes being punched out in the Arctic/Antarctic Regions.
We've passed the "350PPM" Threshold several years ago; and now the annual rate of increase is on the rise each year as well.
We're in "uncharted territory" - in a maner of speaking. We've never lived through these Levels in recorded history; and Levels are bound to continue rising while 3rd World Countries industrialize and others modernize their Infrastructures. CHN isn't backing down, neither is IND. Enter Continent_Africa, SE_Asia, South_America, and you get the picture.
According to Sci Mags, the Oceans have been absorbing the excess heat these several years, stalling the steady climb in the Temps (understandable, with any rise in Temps accelerating Wind and Ocean Currents); but the Temperature Raises are due to overcome the compensations of Current and continue rising somehow.
I just don't like the combination of increased H2O Vapors and CO2 mixing in a warm environment - we just might run into some sort of Acid Rain Surge that works against the Flora and Phytoplanton Baselines.
Enough Textual Doom Pr0n for you all? /sarc
Downvotes?
You Three must be stupid.
Yes, in all likelihood...
All other 'climate' issues nonwithstanding: Crunch the numbers and you'll find that there is only a couple of acres of arable land per person on Earth. With us multiplying like bacteria, how much longer is that going to be sustainable?
Can you get everything you eat/drink/use from 2 acres or less? I can, but only barely, and that's at subsistence level; and that's me, most aren't the minimalist I am.
Humans don't multiply like bacteria you fucking retarded ignoramus. Fuck everythin.g else your scientifically ignorant ass ever has to say
But they do, the only difference is the time constant....
e to the lamba t.....
Climate Change is utter Bovine Excreta. Invented to get grants and employ Leftists.
im sure your avatar is also a self protrait
Then how come we can measure it precisely with machines which have no bias - including the basic, simple thermometer?
inhospitable to arrogant ape descendants maybe... I am sure cockroaches will thrive even more when stupid apes will be gone :-P
by the way, if the global warming is global, why is there record ice on antartica? shouldn't antartica melt too? :-P
It is...
Learn the difference between sea ice and land ice....
When glaciers melt on land, they enter the sea. So, sea ice increases, but land ice decreases.
It's almost as if...
Russians put an object on Venus in the late 70's: Here's the entire of Solaris.
There's record loss, not record ice:
http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/03/warm-arctic-winter-starts-sea-ice...
How come Murricans are so backwards?
Ice at record lows, you say record highs.
Temperatures rise but Americans and no one else says they are dropping.
Are you guys retarded or something?
Club of Rome predictions still right on track. Somebody reran the numbers and concluded that the predictions by the club of Rome are indeed right now track. Expect total system collapse in about 30-40 years.