A bright, young scientist invents a space ship that can finally travel faster than the speed of light. He bravely sets out on the first mission to find intelligent life. Only a few hours later he returns, startled.
"I found an alien species! Almost as advanced as ours. They have been evolving for the thousands of years making great progress in technology and medicine, and one day, they decided to light a great fire. Not one, but millions, around the whole planet.
They, can clearly see the skies are turning black, and the damage is irreversible. In fact all the top alien scientists are warning to put the fires out. But they just keep throwing more stuff on the fire.
The black skies have upset their alien seas. Great walls of water are destroying their cities, endless droughts are ruining the food, millions of them are dying from these catastrophes. But they just keep throwing more stuff in the fire.. These aliens have lost their mind! In 50 years they will all be dead" We must never return to this planet. They call it Earth."
The black skies have upset their alien seas. Great walls of water are destroying their cities, endless droughts are ruining the food, millions of them are dying from these catastrophes. But they just keep throwing more stuff in the fire.. These aliens have lost their mind! In 50 years they will all be dead" We must never return to this planet. They call it Earth."
There has been a lot of talk and graphic images of ice melts, polar bears drowning, floods and hurricanes. But for me.. the most awakening moment was when I saw this table below:
ftp://aftp.cmdl.noaa.gov/products/trends/co2/co2_mm_mlo.txt
2015 1 2015.042 399.98 399.98 399.81 30
2015 2 2015.125 400.28 400.28 399.52 27
2015 3 2015.208 401.54 401.54 399.95 24
2015 4 2015.292 403.28 403.28 400.39 27
2015 5 2015.375 403.96 403.96 400.57 30
2015 6 2015.458 402.80 402.80 400.46 28
2015 7 2015.542 401.31 401.31 400.92 23
2015 8 2015.625 398.93 398.93 400.77 28
2015 9 2015.708 397.63 397.63 401.07 25
2015 10 2015.792 398.29 398.29 401.65 28
2015 11 2015.875 400.16 400.16 402.27 27
2015 12 2015.958 401.85 401.85 402.65 30
2016 1 2016.042 402.52 402.52 402.35 27
2016 2 2016.125 404.04 404.04 403.27 26
2016 3 2016.208 404.83 404.83 403.23 29
2016 4 2016.292 407.42 407.42 404.53 25
2016 5 2016.375 407.70 407.70 404.31 29
2016 6 2016.458 406.81 406.81 404.47 26
2016 7 2016.542 404.39 404.39 404.00 28
2016 8 2016.625 402.25 402.25 404.09 23
2016 9 2016.708 401.03 401.03 404.46 24
2016 10 2016.792 401.57 401.57 404.93 29
Look at the 6th column at the bottom, reading 404.93. Now move our eyes up, you're looking at 2016, then 2015. When I looked at this chart, more than ever, I froze, startled. I felt fear and helplessness. The truth is here. There is no room for arguments or discussion with a numerical table. It does not talk back. It does not melt and re-freeze. It is observed, measured. Truth with a capitol T.
Source: NASA
What the hell are we doing?
Elon Musk so elegantly put it: People are running "the dumbest experiment in history"
He's referring to the burning of fossil fuels. Last year we released 40 billion tons of CO2 into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels like oil and coal.
Let's stop and think about this for a moment.
Scientists forecast by 2060 there will be no more fossil fuels left. These fossil fuels are about 850 million years old. In the course roughly 100 years, we're going to burn through 850 million year old supply of nasty, ancient, black, carbon deposit. All of it. Every last rock. And by we, it's the whole planet doing it, all at the same time. How stupid are we?
The Experiment
What happens if I light this old IPhone on fire?
This is a stupid experiment. But you can get a new iPhone. And you know the outcome, it will probably burn so you'll take precautions.
What happens if I drill a small hole in my brain and remove a little bit of tissue?
This is a really stupid experiment. You don't know the outcome, and there is no recourse. Wouldn't you want to at least try it.. on a monkey first?
We're performing the brain experiment on our planet. We saturate the atmosphere with an element that traps heat, and increase the temperature a few degrees. We have no idea what will happen because it's never been tried.
The only predictions we've gotten from top scientists are really scary ones. Exactly 0 scientists predict that global warming will be a positive change. Shouldn't we try it on another planet? Nah, let's drive right in guys and use our own planet for this.
We're doing the dumbest experiment of all time, on the atmosphere. You know..the only thing that separates us from, yeah, the fricken universe.
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