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PART 1 CHALLENGES. A few amazing FACTS:. A few amazing FACTS: ● The Earth was never so cold. A few amazing FACTS: ● The Earth was never so cold ● Temperature does not follow CO2.
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A few amazing FACTS:● The Earth was never so cold● Temperature does not follow CO2
A few amazing FACTS:● The Earth was never so cold● Temperature does not follow CO2● CO2 not the strongest greenhouse gas
A few amazing FACTS:● The Earth was never so cold● Temperature does not follow CO2● CO2 not the strongest greenhouse gas ● From ‘40-’75 and since 2000 no rise
Climate HISTORY = FACT = “EASY” Climate FUTURE = ”FICTION” = COMPLEX
Alpine glaciers Sea ice Continental ice sheet
Glaciers are not simply melting, but disintegrating
Arctic albedo “Arctic death cycle”
The Great Ocean Conveyor Permafrost methane
“Big Five” ExtinctionsEnd-OrdovicianLate DevonianEnd-PermianEnd-TriassicEnd-Cretaceous (“K/T”) Suggesed main causesSea-level falls Flood basalts Impact event Other causes (also of smaller extinctions):Global cooling / warming, “Clathrate Gun”, Anoxic events in oceans,Hydrogen sulphide emissions from oceans, Oceanic overturn, Nearby nova, super-nova or gamma-ray bursts..(Near) future causes: HUMAN ACTIVITY..?
SOLAR WIND HYDROPOWER NAT.GAS OIL COAL
SOLAR WIND HYDROPOWER NAT.GAS OIL Morale:“That which God made staticshouldremain static” COAL
Conclusions:● The climate system is vast, complex and unpredictable
Conclusions:● The climate system is vast, complex and unpredictable ● We’re currently living in a near infinitesimal bandwidth of the ecological spectrum
Conclusions:● The climate system is vast, complex and unpredictable ● We’re currently living in a near infinitesimal bandwidth of the ecological spectrum● Human caused impact is real but should not be the main motivation for (technological) progress
Why care: 3. Global ecosystem
Why care: 2. Current species and civilisation – scarcity, famine, war, mass migrations 3. Global ecosystem
Why care:1. Mentality shift – tackle inequality, poverty, big oil monopoly, etc..2. Current species and civilisation – scarcity, famine, war, mass migrations 3. Global ecosystem
Cark Sagan:“The Pale Blue Dot”Feb. 14, 1990 Can we thrive and guaranteeabundance within the confinesof this ecological niche?
Toward utilising the supra-mundanepotentialities of the Universe
Natural nuclear fusion = star Nuclear fusion reactor
ITER - Projected time line: 2025: First plasma 2035: Deuterium-Tritium operation
Dark matter web:The cosmic template of creationThe original macrocosmic ectoplasm?