Global Warming: Prepare for a hotter climate and higher oceans
compiled by David Barth, June 16, 2008
From Wired, June 2008, page 164.
The current CO2 level in 2008 is was 380 parts per million (PPM). By 2040 it will reach 450 PPM.
It is obvious that the world will not be able to significantly reduce CO2 emissions considering that the population
explosion will require new coal-fired plants to provide the energy for an energy-hungry world.
We will have to adapt to a hotter, dryer planet. Monsanto and other companies are developing drought-resistant crops.
Scientists are considering "assisted migrations" of birds and bees that might otherwise perish during a traditional
migration due to lack of water along their route.
Nobel Prize winner Paul Crutzen and the president of the National Academy of Sciences, Ralph Cicerone, are considering
reducing the amount of sunlight reaching the earth. One proposal is to loft a large mirror into a sun-synchronous orbit,
and another idea is to spread reflective dust into the stratosphere to reflect sunlight.