@vintagecraze50 wrote:
So this has implications for future disruptions to our world with climate change. You know many people do not even grasp the magnitude of this.
My niece is in geology and her BF is a research geologist. The "Powers That Be" have folks worried about Hurricanes, beach front disappearing, weather etc. Sure, real concerns there but that's the tip of the axe...
Much of the rest of the Axe now goes unspoken.
#1 Pandemic did not become a major concern over 40 years whereby protocol was developed that yeah, President threw away, I'd say because he wanted invoke the Presidential Emergency Powers Acts thus, bye bye elections and much more... But that aside, already 40 years back MAJOR concerns arose on two fronts. One being Nasa found that bacterium had no problem surviving and thriving in the harshest environment known to man, outer space w/ extreme temperature variances and radiation. Two, that there are hordes of pathogens that have not saw the light of day for tens of thousands of years trapped in Permafrost thats melting. Those bacteria/viruses could readily devastate plant life, food chains and yeah,, even Human or or Dogs, Cats etc... Did you know that Covid (Corona Virus) is thought to have jumped from Bovines (Cattle) to Humans in the 1800's. Covid proved the wise scientists from the 1980's correct, had it been a truly NOVEL Virus, aka: Not a Corona Virus but something NEW to todays world well... You might imagine.
#2 Global Warming, ALL THAT WATER and ALL THAT WEIGHT of melted glaciation. Earth is like a smooshed beach ball, its not round. Much of that pressure on the crust is due to Glaciers and glacial melt removes that weight. In the Great Lakes for example "Rebound" has been measured now, that is to say year after year they get more shallow and year after year the rebound is getting faster. On the poles of the Earth that an enormous game changer, those ice caps directly impact both earth's "wobble" and it's Axis. Those are impactors (HUGE) on everything from Continental Drift, Magma flows, mineral flows, seismic zones on and on and on. Then there is ALL THAT WATER, that melt results in huge amounts of more ground water and weather impacts where it ends up. WATER is a lubricant for plate tectonics. This is the stuff that nobody is talking to anybody in the public about yet it is KNOWN Magma flows are changing, been changing, Yellowstone is one of the key research points as its a Super Volcano and with that comes huge underground flows and thus better indicators of change as our technology and knowledge of global nature systems is still very infant.
Now America is rather unique in that the entire center of nation "The Heartland" between basically the Appalachians and The Rockies was once a shallow inland sea. How much sea level rise to start seeing types of events in action is speculation as its based on current melt. Yet the Geologic record of the globe CLEARLY shows that catastrophic water based events dont tend to happen over tens of thousands, thousands or even hundreds of years. They can occur quite rapidly. It was recently discovered for example glacial melt on the southern pole is happening UNDER IT at a very alarming rate. This is due likely to changes in Magma flows as glacial weight is taken off areas of the planet or so some theorize.
Now I can tell you some that my nieces BF researches with say "We're already past the ragged edge" and mother nature is telling us so in her way. That she WILL bring the planet back into balance whether or not human beings survive that or not. The building blocks of life, microbial are tougher than the the complex creatures such as humans. The simpler the organism the less prone it appears to be.
