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15 Things the World Is Running Out of
We live in an era of limited resources—peak oil, peak phosphorous, peak everything. With the world population at nearly 7.4 billion and people living increasingly energy-intensive lifestyles, there has never been a more pressing need to conserve natural resources and develop renewable energy sources.
A recent report from James Hansen and 16 other leading climate experts found that the international target of limiting global temperatures to a 2°C rise this century will not be nearly enough to prevent catastrophic melting of ice sheets that would raise sea levels much higher and much faster than previously thought possible.
To make matters even worse, as 2015 shapes up to be the hottest year on record, scientists warn the world is set to pass the 1°C point this year. The icing on the cake? We won’t even have wine, coffee, tequila or chocolate to cope with runaway climate change.
22 Comments on "15 Things the World Is Running Out of"
Makati1 on Wed, 5th Aug 2015 8:30 pm
Hmmm. Well, it would take a huge climate change to kill our cocoa and coffee trees on the farm. Wine can be made out of other things than grapes. It is all a matter of where you live and what you produce yourself.
GregT on Wed, 5th Aug 2015 8:42 pm
“We won’t even have wine, coffee, tequila or chocolate to cope with runaway climate change.”
If we trigger a runaway greenhouse event, wine, coffee, tequila, and chocolate, will be the least of our concerns. That, and the 1 degree point was the original do not exceed limit to avoid triggering such an event.
Davy on Wed, 5th Aug 2015 8:44 pm
Look pretty crappy in your part of the world Mak with this climate change deal. Are you prepared?
http://www.rappler.com/nation/48599-six-ways-climate-change-affects-ph-cities
http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/aboutcc/problems/rising_temperatures/hotspot_map/philippines.cfm
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/11/12/this-map-shows-why-the-philippines-is-so-vulnerable-to-climate-change/
http://www.dw.com/en/climate-change-threatens-philippines/a-17448816
on and on the beat goes on ^>^
Apneaman on Wed, 5th Aug 2015 9:55 pm
We Are The Asteroid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPq9YAg9mfc
Plantagenet on Wed, 5th Aug 2015 10:06 pm
The world is’t running out of oil—we are in an oil glut. Similarly, we aren’t running out of chocolate, wine, tequila or coffee. All of those things are readily available in finer stores everywhere.
CHEERS!
davey thompsony on Wed, 5th Aug 2015 10:42 pm
Oil is finite as it takes millions of years for the earth to form crude. Every drop that is used is gone forever. The human made market for oil is now still extracting, refining and burning crude oil, however, as we humans go through this process the oil does indeed deplete and run out.
Apneaman on Wed, 5th Aug 2015 10:50 pm
How the West was burned: Thousands of wildfires ablaze in California alone
http://mashable.com/2015/08/04/how-the-west-was-burned/
Makati1 on Wed, 5th Aug 2015 11:01 pm
Related:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-new-climate-normal-abrupt-sea-level-rise-and-predictions-of-civilization-collapse/5467184
http://www.globalresearch.ca/fukushima-radiation-millions-of-fish-dead-in-pacific-northwest-destruction-of-marine-life-unprecedented-catastrophe/5467281
Tic Tic Tic…
GregT on Wed, 5th Aug 2015 11:02 pm
“The world is’t running out of oil”
The “world” began running out of oil as soon as we began burning it. I know this should be a simple concept to understand, but given the source of the quote, it doesn’t come as a surprise that a certain person doesn’t get it. Dumb as a sack of hammers.
Apneaman on Wed, 5th Aug 2015 11:02 pm
Arctic Sea Ice Minimum Volumes 1979-2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuKVk1gMJDg
Plantagenet on Thu, 6th Aug 2015 12:00 am
@GregT
Think about this analogy.
When you have a case of beer and you take the first sip of the first can of beer, —- are you running out of beer? DO you take a sip and then in a panic run to the store to get more because you erroneously think you are “running out of beer”? It would be pretty dumb for you to do that, wouldn’t it?
Its the same with oil. We did not start “running out of oil” when the fist barrel was pumped as you claim.
Get it now?
CHEERS!
GregT on Thu, 6th Aug 2015 12:06 am
I don’t drink beer planter. I drink rum. From the moment that a bottle of rum begins to be consumed, it begins to run out. Unless of course, one stops consuming it. Then it just stays there, not running out, until someone begins to consume it again.
Get it now? Didn’t think so. As usual. Smart like stick…..
Jimmy on Thu, 6th Aug 2015 12:23 am
Apparently Plant isn’t running out of stupid trollish comments. Shouldn’t he be packing a gun and guarding a US army recruiting office from terrorists or something?
MrNoItAll on Thu, 6th Aug 2015 12:46 am
Beer is not a finite resource. Oil is. The attempted comparison is moronic.
Apneaman on Thu, 6th Aug 2015 12:09 pm
Tokyo Endures Longest Heat Wave Ever Recorded; Death Toll Surges to 55 in Japan
http://www.weather.com/news/news/japan-heat-stroke-deaths-illnesses-2015-august-2
Apneaman on Thu, 6th Aug 2015 12:12 pm
2015 Arctic Sea Ice Maximum Annual Extent Is Lowest On Record
http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/2015-arctic-sea-ice-maximum-annual-extent-is-lowest-on-record
Arctic expert predicts final collapse of sea ice within four years
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/sep/17/arctic-collapse-sea-ice
Apneaman on Thu, 6th Aug 2015 12:37 pm
At this rate jellyfish will soon be the only seafood on the menu. Jellyfish – no blood no brains been around 600 million years and growing in record numbers. Super intelligent naked apes been around for about 6 million, 200,000 in current form. Not looking so good.
Toxic algae blooms in Pacific Ocean worse than first feared
” SEATTLE (AP) — A vast bloom of toxic algae off the West Coast is denser, more widespread and deeper than scientists feared even weeks ago, according to surveyors aboard a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration research vessel.
This coastal ribbon of microscopic algae, up to 60 kilometres wide and 200 metres deep in places, is flourishing amid unusually warm Pacific Ocean temperatures. It now stretches from at least California to Alaska and has shut down lucrative fisheries. Shellfish managers on Tuesday doubled the area off Washington’s coast that is closed to Dungeness crab fishing, after finding elevated levels of marine toxins in tested crab meat.
So-called “red tides” are cyclical and have happened many times before, but ocean researchers say this one is much larger and persisting much longer, with higher levels of neurotoxins bringing severe consequences for the Pacific seafood industry, coastal tourism and marine ecosystems.”
http://bc.ctvnews.ca/toxic-algae-blooms-in-pacific-ocean-worse-than-first-feared-1.2503354
Dredd on Thu, 6th Aug 2015 1:20 pm
Don’t forget Peak Sanity dood (The Peak of Sanity – 3).
Makati1 on Thu, 6th Aug 2015 11:34 pm
Our forests are burning, the plankton in the seas are dying off, grasslands are drying up and dying. These are the oxygen producers that we rely on to exist. Meanwhile, we are doing everything possible to turn our oxygen into the gasses that are causing the destruction. Why isn’t this on the front page of every news paper?
“Insanity, greed & denial”. The words on Homo Sapiens’ tombstone.
MrNoItAll on Fri, 7th Aug 2015 1:11 am
“The world isn’t running out of oil”
Clearly, the one thing that the world isn’t running out of is stupidity.
agramante on Fri, 7th Aug 2015 1:57 pm
Calling the current oversupply a “glut” winds up being a pointless semantic game. Global spare capacity is a little less than 1% of daily supply, so the market is as tight as ever. That will go up in the coming few years with Iran coming online, to be sure, but we still won’t be close to the situation we had in the 80’s, when spare capacity was closer to 25% of global daily consumption. And even then peak oil–though then still a few decades away–was still reality. Consumption had already surpassed discovery. Rate of supply is not the same as ultimate recovery. The current oversupply is due to slowing demand growth, or even contraction of demand, particularly in China. I’m no economist but I’m beginning to suspect that country might be in for a depression (their claims of growth, albeit reduced, mean nothing to me–other indicators like credit and electricity consumption tell a different story). If that happens, global oil prices could stay low for quite a while. But we’ll still be pumping on the order of 90 mmbd, and still riding along this bumpy plateau toward the dropoff (even using the contemporary stats as opposed to plain crude). An ephemeral oversupply doesn’t affect the physical reality. But like with global warming, understanding the large-scale process doesn’t make every meso- or microscale event understandable within the context. That’s not a demonstration of the truth or fallacy of the larger-context theory.
apneaman on Sat, 8th Aug 2015 6:54 pm
Hong Kong swelters on hottest day in history
http://phys.org/news/2015-08-hong-kong-swelters-hottest-day.html