nymag on climate disaster

[JamesR]

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/20 ... tated.html

Interesting article, it seems to cover just about all aspects of climate change and paints a pretty negative picture. References are included.

Hopefully we can genetically engineer humans to tolerate higher heat soon.

[ducknalddon]

Hopefully we can genetically engineer humans to tolerate higher heat soon.

Nature might do that itself, or it might give up on us.

[Jean]

Our only hope seems to be to run out of rare earth soon.

[ZAFCorrection]

I don't really have any expertise in climatology, but the author is pretty sloppy with his use of temperature units. For a general audience with a tenuous grasp of Celsius, that's kind of a problem.