Theres a new book that just came out called ‘Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1500 Years’.
Its an assemblage of peer reviewed studies by over 500 scientists that takes a long range view of climate change, pointing out that there have been more than a dozen warming trends since the last ice age, and that the current one is coincidental with solar cycles.

Carleton University geologist Tim Patterson echoes the same ideas in a huge newspaper article published today…that arctic temps in the 1930s were actually higher than they are today, and then fell through the 40s until approx 1975, when they started going up again.

He argues that we simply wriggling our way back down to the next ice age, there being only 10-14 thousand years of warm periods for every 100 thousand years of glacial desolation.

We are currently in the midst of solar cycle 25, which will be at its weakest by approx 2020, preluding another cold period similar to the ‘little ice age’ of the 16-19th centuries.

Yes, I think mankind will survive. There are just too many of us around statistically not to, but the survival won’t be pleasant, IMO. And you’d better be one of those rich elite who is prepared. Forget most of the poor and middle income, especially in America, where when the power fails for more than three days, suburbans have to find emergency shelter.

Of course, I’d vote for a miracle…non-godist, man-initiated variety. I’d love a huge turn-around to happen — for the biosphere to heal, for the consumerism that has been driving this since the industrial revolution to dry up, for humans to stop proliferating — but I don’t think it will happen. A century and a half to get us in this pickle, and a decade to turn it around, convincing 7 billion people that they don’t need more and they don’t need to have more than one child (adopt number two)? I don’t think it will happen.

As the frogs, so we, dried up to dust.

I am an optimist by nature. Really. But when the trees are dying around me as I watch, due to nothing more than solar radiants having become too concentrated for them to survive, when there is more than a fifty degree temperature variation between daytime and nighttime temperature, winter or summer, take your pick, when winter turns to summer instantly, going from twenty degrees F outside daytime temp to over seventy F outside daytime time, and the sun’s rays are so intense that they cook me inside my white car even with the fan on and a veil of clouds obscuring that sun, it tells me we’re in the doo-doo. Fifty degrees, ambient temperature outside, and I, olive complected and an outdoorswoman, am burned by the solar radiants while sitting INSIDE my car — we’re in trouble.

And what is the point of wanting to survive in a world bereft of all that I hold precious — wild nature, giant trees in deep, closed canopy forests, the wildlife and all that is untouched by man?

We become a sterile, manipulated environment, Earth “parked out,” little sun-resistent trees, genetically manipulated and grown by Dow or Monsanto, all planted in nice tidy rows on verges bordering cement highways laden with supermarkets and shops?

Anyway…can you tell this is before coffee? I’m never very coherent in the morning before my jo.

Rambling off.

I think it will have more to do with advances in technology and simple economics. In other words, it will become cheaper to be less destructive.

There are many examples already afoot!