The benefits of global warming just keep piling up. Not only will rising oceans shorten your drive to the beach and make those Canadian waters warmer, now you’ll get evening entertainment, too. So pull up a chair, open a beer, and watch those methane fireballs:
+6.4°: Most of life is exterminated
Warming seas lead to the possible release of methane hydrates trapped in sub-oceanic sediments: methane fireballs tear across the sky, causing further warming. The oceans lose their oxygen and turn stagnant, releasing poisonous hydrogen sulphide gas and destroying the ozone layer. Deserts extend almost to the Arctic. “Hypercanes” (hurricanes of unimaginable ferocity) circumnavigate the globe, causing flash floods which strip the land of soil. Humanity reduced to a few survivors eking out a living in polar refuges. Most of life on Earth has been snuffed out, as temperatures rise higher than for hundreds of millions of years.
Dr. Suzuki,
When the story first came out about a P-38 recovery from beneath 300 feet of ice on Greenland, I followed it with much interest.
http://www.thelostsquadron.com
But, I’m also wondering, in light of growing concern regarding global warming how this could be when the ice caps, as you say, have been shrinking? Your expertise in this matter would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, and I look forward to your response.
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No response – but it would be fun to see the veins bulge out his neck if I asked him this in person.
I heard him on an audioclip, going berzerk, ranting and raving, then storming out of his interview on the John Oakley show after a question regarding the skepticism among some scientists on the subject of GW. This guy is a scientist??
Bolshevik: “It is interesting to note that Suzuki is a smart guy, some may not like it, never-the-less it is true.”
Maybe … maybe not. Does an actor playing Einstein know what Einstein knew? Did Einstein know what the actor knows?
Suzuki, at the expense of taxpayers, became a public figure. He decided to push his own political agenda, giving up his impartiality. He just became another climate change whore for his pimp Mo Strong.
Agreed to last paragraph.
Here, for your entertainment, is a copy of a post that I recently put up on dr. suzuki’s beloved desmogblog:
VJ, a geneticist is also not a climatologist. Ian, what is the point of any discussion with you if all you can do is resort to name calling? I have many choice names for Dr. Suzuki and your beloved CBC, but what is the point? The truth is that I have no direct evidence against AGW and you have no direct evidence for it. The only way to get direct evidence would be to have two earths and eliminate mankind at about 1500 AD in one case and leave things as they have been in the other. Of course this is impossible. We do have indirect evidence that shows that the current rates of climate change easily fit in with what has happened on this planet in the past. In fact there have been several instances where the changes have been much more abrupt than what we are currently experienceing. Regarding climate change modeling and simulations, why do you expect me to believe what the current models are predicting? If you look at three periods of time – 1900 – 2000, 1940-1970, and 1970-2005, you will find that the current simulations all predict the wrong outcome for all three of these periods. The temperatures actually dropped globally from 1940-1970 when you eliminate the heat island affect (that is why everyone was so freaked out about global cooling in the 1970’s). For 1970 to 2005, the models over estimated the increase by tenfold. So why do you expect me to believe them for a fourth period of time. Repeating the same course of action over and over and expecting a different outcome is a definition of insanity! I took a computer course last semester and learned a bit about simulations and found that the usefulness of a simulation depends on the accuracy, depth, and validity of the various input parameters. Obviously, this is lacking with current climate simulations. Thanks for your interactions. I cannot do any more posting here since I have a life; wife, three kids, and a chem mid term next week. I know I will not change anyone’s mind here and you will definitely not change mine. Its kind of sad to see what I call the ‘ghettoization’ of the internet and blogging. The internet is full of little groups of people that have their own interests and opinions that huddle together to prognosticate and stroke each other for their group wisdom and ‘righteousness’. Every once in a while a ‘kamikaze’ person jumps in (like myself in this case), stirs the pot, and then disappears, leaving behind fodder for the faithful to feed upon. I am not necessarily just criticizing you and your group, this of course also happens in right leaning sections of the blogosphere. Cheers, Eric
ps. You will all probably be REALLY happy to know that I live on an acreage and heat a 30′ by 50′ shop and a 1600 square foot house with a walk out basement with a COAL fired hot water heating system! About 25 t coal per year, shame, shame. This should fuel your righteous indignation for at least a few days!
“methane fireballs tear across the sky”???
You people don’t belive this? Well, then I beg to disagree.
If you have ever been down in the south side of Nogales, Sonora and spent the evening eating bean burritos, refried beans and that yellow sauce that comes with them, and chasing it all with tequila shooters and Mexican beer, you would KNOW all about methane fireballs that tear across the sky.
How bad can it get, you ask. Well… it’s got eveyone running for the border!
“We find that CO2 emissions resulting from (mid-Cretaceous) super-plume tectonics could have produced atmospheric CO2 levels from 3.7 to 14.7 times the modern pre-industrial value of 285 ppm. (…) this would cause a global warming of from 2.8 to 7.7 degrees C over today’s global mean temperature.”
Geophys Res Lett. 1991 Jun;18(6):987-90.
The Cretaceous was a period of great biological diversity that produced, among others, the many species of dinosaurs. The party was ended by a meteorite that caused global COOLING. In other words, life on Earth loves heat.
These lies are spread by UN thieves who want us to send our tax money to their friend$ in Africa.