Nothing in science can explain the known climate of the last 50,000 years. We are in the third warm period, and the thermal change from ice sheets covering a lot of north America and Europe, to none, and back again, is heat transfer far beyond any global source.
The political version is new industries wind farms, solar, will never be profitable without government subsidies. Only by taxing coal and oil, can a few companies live on government redistrabution rather than the merits of their technology.
An Ice Age is more likely, and the real problems of the near future, 2040, are over population, declining food production, and a shortage of fresh water.
We are Biology, we are over running our food supply, we will die in mass starting in 2040-2050.
As the projection of population growth and food supply cross, we will have to produce more food than has been produce in all time, every year. That is not likely to happen.
Famine, Plague, Ice Age, all kill quickly. Compared to the record of other species, a 95% die off is likely. No water, die in a week, no food, die in months, a few meters of snow that stays over the summer, Europe would be gone in a year.
Both food production and water supply are in decline now.
16 Dec 2009, 4:16 pm
