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"Patrick Turner" <info@turneraudio.com.au> wrote

> Just image Canberra being 5C average temp warmer. Our winters would be
> like Sydney's, and our summers like Bourke.
> The growing season for food will become a lot shorter, and we won't be
> able to export any food and we will battle to feed the 50 million who
> will live in Oz in 100 years.
> Then imagine the sea levels swamping all the coastal cities with water
> 100 metres above where it is now, as it has been many times before.
> Then we will have to rebuild everything, thus causing more CO2.
>
> Don't worry, a good number will survive the future.
>
> Its nature, it goes down the gurgler sometimes, the rises up again. 65
> million years ago, a big rock hit earth and fucked up life real big time
> for many thousands of years. That rock event was a big one but there
> have been a fair few others before it over the last few hundred million
> years. But life still went on, and we eventually evolved from the tiny
> mammal critters back then.
> But we then became the dominant species, and each one of use needs 2kW
> of power to live, 24/7, which is a 20 fold increase on what it was per
> head when there was only a billion of us. So we have become like a big
> rock, or a non stop volcano.
>
> The stupid ethanol issue is one of many that is merely tinkering around
> the edges, like trying to tune the piano before continuing with terrible
> music as the Titanic very slowly sinks. If they played better music, ie,
> didn't do ethanol, then maybe we wouldn't mind when we sink with the
> ship. But the ethanol is only one problem of 1,001 others, many much
> larger....
> They say when sea levels rise to a maximum when all the land ice has
> melted then the land submerged is equal to the area of Africa.
> This implies africans will drown, not americans, but that is not quite
> right. There will be some mass migrations and wars as the waters and the
> temperature rises. I won't be around.
>
> So if yer don't worry, and let the world go to hell as it wants to, then
> you can be happy.

Look on the bright side - we'll all be dead in 100 years....Doug :-)