Global Warming Over the Next 200 Years
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Despite efforts by scientists and governments to stem the emission of harmful chemicals responsible for global warming, the Earth's average temperature has risen nearly 1 degree Fahrenheit over the past 30 years. According to Princeton Professor Michael Oppenheimer, another increase of about 4 degrees over the next century would "imply changes that constitute practically a different planet." And yet, according to scientific studies and computer models created by world experts, we are heading into that likely scenario. In 2007, for example, the Fourth Assessment Report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projected that global surface temperature is likely to rise 1.1 to 6.4 degrees C (2.2 – 11.5 degrees F) by 2100.
The phrase a "4 C world," refers to a world where the average temperature rise is 4 degrees centigrade. This means that in some parts of the world the average temperature will rise 2 degrees C and in other parts of the world the temperature will rise 12 degrees C or 21.6 degrees F, making the areas uninhabitable.
According to a study at Oxford, released in 2009, a 4C world would mean that "the limits for human adaptation are likely to be exceeded in many areas of the planet, and the limits of adaptation for natural systems would be largely exceeded throughout the world." Hence the ecosystem, upon which human livelihood depends would "not be preserved."
The Oxford study reported that a 4C rise in the planet's temperature would see severe droughts across the planet and millions of migrants seeking refuge as their food supplies collapse.
Professor Openheimer of Princeton pointed out that as temperatures continue to rise there will be a greater and greater chance of the disintegration of the Antarctic and the Greenland Ice sheets, which together hold about 20 % of the world's water supply. If either of these two sheets disintegrates, sea level could rise nearly 20 feet in the course of a couple of centuries, swamping the southern third of Florida and Manhattan up to the middle of Greenwich Village.
According to Professor Openheimer, "It is a world with a one- to two-meter sea level rise by 2100, hundreds of millions will be left homeless." And yet, the water rise is likely to head to 12 meters 39 feet in the coming centuries as the Greenland and Western Antarctic ice sheets melt, according to papers presented at the 2009 conference in Oxford.
A critical concept among scientists looking into the future of global warming is the "tipping point." This is the point at which radical changes begin to take place within the background of gradual changes. A radical change could be a collapse of the Greenland or Antarctic Ice field, or an unexpected event such as the recent spell of frigid winters in the Northern Hemisphere, only many times greater in intensity. A number of scientific experts were polled about when they believed the Earth might reach the "tipping point." All of the scientists believed there was a greater than 50% chance of reaching the tipping point within the next 200 years.
Prospects such as these caused Viking author Great Sun to make a deep inner peregrination into his own soul's subjective, formative world. He peered into the future and played out the possibilities for mankind. He considered the effects different remedies would have on averting mankind's course to disaster. In the end, he repeatedly found that two simple but essential life codes were needed to stem the course of humanity's destruction. He presents the codes and methods for application in his book "Super Life Secret Codes."
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2011-07-03 23:42:16 |
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