[Terrapreta] What is so bad about global warming?

[Dan Culbertson]

Sorry - meant to send this back to the list so no one else mistakes what I said.  And sorry if I tweaked a lot of nerves.  Let's just end the topic?

Dan  

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Dan Culbertson 
To: MMBTUPR at aol.com 
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 17:52
Subject: Re: [Terrapreta] What is so bad about global warming?


What I am asking, rephrased, is "once we have done our worst and gone the way of the dinosaurs without restoring the planet to a pre-human state will the earth survive and gin up a new population of creatures?"  I know all about the near-term and long-term human impacts.  The reason I wonder about post-human survival is because I have some "friends" who would very much like to see humanity exterminated to save the planet and my answer to them (mainly to shut them up) has usually been "just wait, it will happen soon enough."  Their answer back to me is always "But by then the earth will be a sterile rock and never recover"  But no one can tell me why that might be and I thought I might get a simple comeback here or a reasoned verification of what they say.  I probably should have been less tongue-in-cheek with the topic title.  

Dan

----- Original Message ----- 
From: MMBTUPR at aol.com 
To: terrapreta at bioenergylists.org 
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 17:43
Subject: Re: [Terrapreta] What is so bad about global warming?


          from          Lewis L. Smith

In answering the question in the title, one might begin with any of the following three groups of people  >>>

[1]     The 13,000 refugees in India and New Zealand who have been forced to abandon their island homes of centuries forever because every combination of high tide and storm surge  leaves them without a dry place on which to stand.

[2]     The coastal fisher folk in Alaska whose houses and piers are falling into the sea, because the spring storms no longer roar across ice but across water, stirring up aggressive waves which attack the shore.

[3]     The people in Rincón, Puerto Rico, whose housing development was built on a compacted land fill next to the shore. The sea is eating into their properties, scattering the trash up and down the shore and undermining the houses.

Cordially.  ###

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