tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-131797432577932217.post2743153584242231003..comments2024-03-28T08:07:07.514-04:00Comments on American Admiralty Books: Oceanograpy: Climate ChangeAmerican Admiralty Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13580284626647946681noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-131797432577932217.post-23691889831807622042012-03-23T15:12:55.651-04:002012-03-23T15:12:55.651-04:00This was a good explanation of the many natural ca...This was a good explanation of the many natural causes besides human industrial activity that can cause climate change, some very rapidly. It seems to us that climate change, especially relatively rapid climate change, is not a question of if, but when. It's not even a question of how we can cause it, because nature doesn't need us, to create drastic and sudden climate change. <br /><br /> While we shouldn't neglect attention to reducing humankind's carbon foot print, the real question that governments should be asking themselves is how to plan to minimize negative consequences when the inevitable happens. Arctic marine transport is an immediate naval and merchant marine issue of the moment, but as drought and temperature change, governments and agrabusiness, and municiple authorities need to be thinking about food security. We have the technology today to produce vast quantities of fruits and vegetables in a factory like setting in highly urbanized areas. If governments including municipal governments were to encourage such production cities would be more secure if large areas of agricultural production were to lose a crop. <br /><br /> When NASA looks at space colonies their ideas of self sustaining production of animal protein don't include cows. NASA looks at aquaculture, and such small meat producing species as quail and rabbit. These sources lend themselves to indoor production. This article points to the many ways that climatic disaster may befall us and has befallen our ancestors in the long ago past. We have the technology to not have to slip back into the stone age. We have the technology to avoid massive die offs of human beings. What we lack is a plan and a committment to act based on the very realistic expectation that no matter waht is happening now, be it simply periodic natural change, or human activity induced change, climate change will happen at some point and may be sudden even if we produced an emission free industrial world. All it takes is sun spots, orbit wobble, extensive volcanism, or a meteor strike or any combination of the above. We should be planning and acting now on the firm belief that it will eventually happen.American Admiralty Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13580284626647946681noreply@blogger.com