Thread: Climate

Greetings all,
Well less than 36 hours after my first post there are120 plus. There are nay sayers (plus some I am not quite sure what they are saying) but useful posts as well. As individuals or even a small nation we are not going to solve the climate change problem while most governments are dragging the chain but this does not alter the fact that it is happening. What we can do is adapt. What I mean by this is to take the steps that we can to minimise the effects on us and our families like not building or buying a home in the flood plain. It is our risk and our adaption. Best of luck with it.
Regards Grandpamac.

Without doubt releasing billions of tonnes of stored fossil carbon into the atmosphere must change the ratio of gases present over time.
The biggest problem is acidification of the oceans - CO2 desolves in water forming carbonic acid. Up until now the sea has been a sink for fossil carbon emissions but it is possibly near the point of saturation.
We have had higher levels of atmospheric CO2 before but these were reached gradually, this time perhaps the increase is happening at a rate faster than adaptation can keep pace with ?
As we go up in altitude or south in latitude it is cooler so perhaps living at 500 mtrs asl or shifting to bluff is the answer ?