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Originally Posted by aerohead
Human combustion of fossil fuel, each year, is equivalent to a forest fire covering the entire surface of Earth, oceans, deserts, high mountains, etc., included, times 1.75, each year. That's the 'arithmetic' of global warming.
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I've looked at the burning of boatloads of fossil fuels every day in a similar way. It's a massive, continuous, massively polluting fire.
I like the way that Jeremy Rifkin characterizes climate change:
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Climate is all about the shift of the hydrological cycle, the water cycle: for every degree that the temperature goes up on the planet, the atmosphere absorbs 7 percent more precipitation from the ground. That means the whole water cycle of the planet shifts. More floods, more tsunamis, more hurricanes, more violent snows, longer periods of drought—that’s what’s going on around the world today.
Global ecosystems cannot catch up to a shift in our water. Drastic changes in the hydrological cycle leave ecosystems destabilized—and then the animals and plants within those systems die out. So what our scientists are now telling us is that we are in the early stages of the sixth great extinction event in the history of the planet.
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