



Source: Science Daily

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RE: Lunacy
By dgingerich on 8/8/2012 6:38:56 PM , Rating: 2
That period was also a period of huge proliferation of life, which is the reason we have the coal and oil. There were huge freshwater swamps throughout the world (which made the coal) and huge areas of high concentrations of algae, with dead zones underneath it (that formed our oil.)

In addition, there is a lot of CO2 that was loose back then that is now locked in coral reefs. So it can't get as high as it was 350 million years ago.

I'd say we'd be better off with such conditions. the ice ages wouldn't be so quick to return, we'd have longer growing seasons and many areas where we could grow a lot of our food year round, and human life would have a better chance to grow and flourish.

RE: Lunacy
By ArcliteHawaii on 8/12/2012 5:49:38 PM , Rating: 2
An increase in global temperature is not to be welcomed. Whenever you increase the energy in a system you increase the disorder and chaos.
* More heat will result in more extreme weather events like tornadoes and hurricanes.
* The rise in the sea levels will reduce the land available for an increasing global population
* Rising sea levels will also inundate fresh water aquifers with salt water, further reducing an already shrinking amount of fresh water on the planet.
* The increase in temperature will cause further drought and desertification of America's breadbasket and that of other countries pushing arable land further north. This land is less productive due to it's acute angle to the sun. Food will be more expensive or even unavailable.
* In addition the heat makes hard to treat tropical diseases more widespread. Already cases of west Nile and malaria are spreading in the US due to the increased average temps.

