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The coming global warming holocaust

“Scientists are still trying to fully understand the ramification of a disappearing Arctic, but one of the things they do know is that it’s not good news for Earth.”

“…“What happens in the Arctic doesn’t stay in the Arctic. It has huge implications for the global system. And one of the reasons people are legitimately concerned about melting of sea ice are the uncertainties associated with the consequences of that for the rest of the planet.”

“…The Arctic is particularly important in that it keeps the planet cool by reflecting sunlight back into space, but as ice melts, more sunlight is absorbed and sea levels rise, creating a ripple effect we have only just begun to witness.”

Sorry for all the quoting but those three statements are of crucial importance to understanding what happens in global warming. They are from an article The Fight For the Arctic by Tara Holmes, posted on Care2.com June 13, 2012. The first quote is rather nebulous and disingenuous at the same time, because scientists do in fact understand exactly what the ramifications are. Al Gore documented them in An Inconvenient Truth in 2005. The data he used has gotten MUCH worse in the past 7 years. The only scientists NOT in agreement are those work for industries dependent on polluting the planet for profit. Upton Sinclair said, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” And Gilda Radner said, and that’s the truth, pthhh. I agree with them both.

What happens in the arctic doesn’t stay there. Al’s documentary shows graphically the ocean vectoring system which circulates water all over the planet, bringing cold water down from the north and up from the south to the equator and warm back up. When that shuts down, as it did nearly 640,000 years ago, between Greenland and Europe it ushered in an Ice Age that resulted in a snowball earth, which means the entire planet was covered with a mile or more of ice, including the equator. That would be a mass extinction event today that would dwarf any that came before. How that was discerned was in ice cores drilled into the Ice Sheet covering the Arctic. One could only hope at that point, and we may be past the tipping point where we could prevent this already, that enough of our folly survived so that the next sentient species to arise on this planet in 50,000 or 100,000 years could keep it from happening again. None of us, more importantly, none of our grandchildren and great grandchildren will survive this extinction event.

The third statement explains precisely why global warming will result in global cooling, because as the ice is gone (and if you have seen An Inconvenient Truth, you will have seen the difference THEN between what the major ice sheets looked like 10 years before and in 2005, some had already nearly disappeared) and more sunlight is absorbed, sea levels will RISE in a major way. North Carolina has dealt with the problem by passing a law against it. Virginia by passing a law allowing only an 8 inch rise. Classic ostrich behavior. As the planet heats up, deserts will grow, deserts will be where they are not now, storms will increase in frequency and ferocity – we are already seeing this happen. More water will evaporate into the atmosphere, eventually blocking more sunlight from reaching the surface and cooling will begin, the vectoring system of the oceans will shut off and the extinction event will be upon us.

How anyone can see this evidence and yet deny it is beyond me, beyond even Upton Sinclair’s caustic observation. That the 1% put their personal profit ahead of the lives of everyone else on the planet is beyond me. That pandering politicians put the 1% and their campaign contributions above the lives of their constituents is beyond me. That some scientists can be bought is beyond me. I simply do not understand this, the science is irrefutable, we already see evidence of all that has been predicted happening and still the great nations of this planet, led by our own, refuse to act because it is not in their short term interest. There was a time when statespersons served in our offices, people who looked 25, 50 years into the future and said, “we need to do this now, in order for that to happen then.” That was how the infrastructure of our planet was built, our countries infrastructure was built – how we got interstate highways, a national electric grid, water mains and sewers built, railroads to transport us and goods around our country.

Now we have leaders who think in two year terms, if it does not aid in their next election they are against it. It does not matter what happens in 20 years, the next election is what matters. And we have gotten so locked into ideology that compromise in the interest of the greater good is unthinkable, let alone possible. A true civilization is one in which no one will have something that comes at the cost of another. We are so far from that reasonable, golden/platinum rule place that it would be laughable were it not so horribly sad. So prepare as best you can for what is coming. Moving inland will save you for a time from the rising seas, but it won’t protect you from the giant tornado’s that will and already are snarling ever more frequently throughout the world. The planet will survive, we can’t kill it, but we can make it uninhabitable for our species and just about all others. Earth will simply chew us up, spit us out, heal itself eventually, and life will begin again. Hopefully this time, sentient life.

If today brings even one choice your way,
choose to be a Bringer of the Light. much love, :^) gene