Our species has survived 5 major extinctions events and many more minor extinctions. Most of these events involved extremes of climate and environment comparable with the worst predictions of climate change. We have a much better chance of survival than any other species save perhaps bacteria and other microbes.Originally Posted by kiwiling
We could all sit outside on banana lounges discussing the best way to rebuild a 4WD transmission and agree, through shared stories of conquests supporting our assertions, that there is no basis to the proposition that those least assured of their persuasions are the first to condemn others for theirs.
We weren't around when the dinosaurs became extinct...and that is what is going to hit within 50 years
Of course we were. Only we were small rodent sized mammals at the time.
The extinction of the dinosaurs occurred over an approximate 5 million year period due to the Chixalub impactor and the eruption of the Deccan Traps large igneous province. The resultant climate shift was a glacial event with a resultant much lower average temperature which could not sustain creatures the size of dinosaurs.
I'm not saying humans aren't at risk but we will have plenty of time to adapt to new climate conditions. An ability to adapt that has perpetuated our species since the earliest times. Our civilization and domesticated plants and animals may not survive, but we will.
I agree, but it won't be a very pleasant lifestyle.
Migrated
the biggest change, from what i've read, will be the sea level (rising 1-6 feet over the next hundred years)
cities will build more dikes and costal dunes to try to protect against the rising sea levels.
countries like the malidives will be pretty well fu*ked.
besides that, humans will adapt and i doubt life will be like a mad max movie in a hundred years.
IMO, facing these challenges together (countries cooperating) the world will be more peaceful and "civilized" in a hundred years.
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With, most probably, 75% less people.
100 years? this place will be fucked.
This is it... The apocalypse.
That would be nice...but the biggest change will be water quality...i.e pH levels from the increased CO2 in the atmosphere...the sea will die and will not be able to produce enough oxygen to support life...see this doco...
http://www.abc.net.au/science/crude/ scary shit man
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you just reminded me. Have you seen the adverts for this stuff?
The page you are looking for, "http://www.abc.net.au/science/crude/...scary" cannot be found. It might have been removed, had its name changed, or be temporarily unavailable.
Ya, page not found.
put up a link kiwi.
What have you been smoking?
What will we eat?
There are few problems in life that cannot be solved with toast.
One of them, however, is opening a can of corned beef with that stupid key. This cannot easily be done at the best of times, and toast is of surprisingly little use in resolving the issue.
Projecting a hundred years forward.
I don't think so.
We forget time is non-linear.
I think something will be around in 2100 but have no idea what....
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