Everyone and everything is roasted. Eg: "The human populations of Australia and Africa, of course, were wiped out". After temperature increases by a total of 11 degrees C since industrial civilization began, a new Black Death is said to kill half of the people in "some parts of Europe", but Asia and North America experience it as well. I'm assuming billions die. After the evil villain geoengineering triggers the end, Arctic permafrost emissions double the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere in ten years, ice sheets are collapsing left and right on decadal time scales, 60 - 70% of species are driven to extinction, a "runaway greenhouse" looms, many think that "the end of the human race was near". This is all by 2092. Oreskes and Conway sling around a broad brush. The main text is only 50 pages. There are survivors in many places on the planet who "regroup and rebuild" presumably, a new civilization, or new civilizations. These "survivors" include people "in northern inland regions of Europe, Asia, and North America as well as inland and high altitude regions of South America". China stands out in their minds by 2393 as an organized place. Although they "aren't that sure" the current Chinese regime can persist, China comes out ahead in their thinking because they think that "authoritarian states may well find it easier to make the changes necessary to survive rapid climate change". I didn't find their political scenario interesting. They project trends that to me seem ephemeral.
I noticed they were demonizing geoengineering and wondered about it. There is enough peddling of misinformation about geoengineering going on I was disappointed to see Oreskes and Conway join the throng. Oreskes is wandering around on a book tour spouting all this stuff and I thought someone should at least try to correct her on this cooling the planet will warm it thing. On Thursday, August 7, 2014 7:34:43 PM UTC-7, Greg Rau wrote: > > I haven't read the book yet, but any idea why western civilization is > singled out here for collapse and everyone else survives AGW/SRM effects? > Fiction indeed. > Greg > > ------------------------------ > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
