January 28, 2009

Global Warming From Carbon Dioxide Will Increase Five-fold Over The Next Millennia, Scientists Predict

"Scientists at the University of Liverpool have found that heating from carbon dioxide will increase five-fold over the next millennia."

According to Professor Ric Williams, of the University’s School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, “The excessive amount of carbon in the atmosphere will make the oceans more acidic and hamper the ability of the oceans to absorb further carbon from the atmosphere. The extra carbon dioxide remaining in the atmosphere will lead to an increase in the overall heating of our planet, making sea levels rise and exacerbating the melting of the Arctic ice caps."

As a brief reminder, the Wikipedia entry for Global Warming lists the following results, "Increasing global temperature will cause sea levels to rise and will change the amount and pattern of precipitation, likely including an expanse of the subtropical desert regions. Other likely effects include Arctic shrinkage and resulting Arctic methane release, increases in the intensity of extreme weather events, changes in agricultural yields, modifications of trade routes, glacier retreat, species extinctions and increases in the ranges of disease vectors."(source)

The "solution": “To prevent a situation like this from happening scientists are working to develop carbon-capture techniques, which aim to remove excess carbon from identifiable sites, such as the atmosphere around fossil fuel plants, and permanently store them away.”

Hopefully along with the excess carbon emissions these scientists will store the remainder of the 13.5 quadrillion lethal doses of plutonium-239 that the United States has produced since industrial production initiated.

ORIGINAL SOURCE: Science Daily

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