Balance

I was reading the last article posted here and thinking about Climate Change.

It's all about balance. But not human balance. It's about our earth achieving the balance that it wants and we don't and likely won't like it at all. I'm always drawn back to the fact that the North pole's average temperature was once 76 degrees Fahrenheit and it looks like it might be returning there sometime in the next 500 years or so.

But, if we think about this what does this mean for humans?

It basically means a whole lot of poorer uneducated humans likely are going to die in storms, floods, droughts, earthquakes etc. along with some educated more technical ones too.

Because getting to 76 degrees Fahrenheit at the north pole is going to mean temperatures of 150 degrees or more during the summertime around the equator or higher. So, unless people live underground (as well as their crops) no plant life is going to be happy in temperatures that high except newer types of plants that might grow that might like that type of heat.

Already we have in California Great White Sharks that used to stay south of the border mostly in Mexico. But now, with warmer waters more and more are staying around San Diego and Los Angeles to feed on Seals and Sea lions which is their favorite food. They only attack surfers and swimmers because they think they are seals. That's what a surfboard looks like from underwater so often you see the bites out of surfboards or legs or arms or torsos.

Also, the poisonous sea snake found in Ventura (fairly far north of Los Angeles and San Diego) which also is surprising. Then there is someone I know personally that got malaria recently in Northern California while hunting or fishing likely from a mosquito or tick. It was confirmed by the CDC that he had malaria by the way.

So, what I'm saying here is balance won't be what humans want unless they live in Siberia and want it to be warmer, it will be what Earth's ecosystem demands instead.

So living around the equator during the summertime is likely to resemble living in hell more and more every year now and living in Siberia might be nicer every year from now on until the north pole is about like living in Hawaii in the summertime. Unfortunately, living in Hawaii by then will resemble living in hell too in the summers.

But, more than anything it is the heat and the winds that people are going to have trouble with. When winds are normal at 100 to 200 miles per hour various places around the earth, how are people going to raise food (and rain, sleet or snow hail at 100 to 200 miles per hour wouldn't just hurt it might rip your whole face off if you were out in it like large hail sometimes kills people in the Mid West.

I remember climbing San Gorgonio mountain near Palm Springs when I was about 21. When I reached the summit there was hail blowing at 100 plus miles an hour and my face started to bleed so I covered my face with plastic to survive this. Though it was loud it didn't cut my face anymore. (San Gorgonio is the highest peak in Southern California at over 11,000 feet.)