The stratocumulus clouds, the layer of cloud shielding us from the direct rays of the sun could vanish one day. That’s according to a new research by a team of scientists. As Eric Sorensen reports, if this happens, it could lead to rapid global warming.
Watching the story, one is reminded of how, for millennia, the earth provided the kind of balance that allowed life to flourish. Clearly, all the signs suggest that nurturing environment is rapidly changing, and we have no one to blame but ourselves.
This resembles the sort of threat that would get the high-latitude countries to resort to geo-engineering even if it totally buggers the populations of the equatorial and tropical regions. Nature can't regulate a man-made climate and it could take a hundred millennia to revert to a natural climate so, left to our own devices, we'll resort to our own devices.
ReplyDeleteAnd, with disastrous results, I predict, Mound.
DeleteThe future gets darker, Lorne. And we party on.
ReplyDeleteOur capacity for ignoring impending doom is remarkable, Owen, yet the piper must be paid.
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