These people do not know what to expect? Are you kidding me?! It's really not that difficult to predict possible global climate shift outcomes. There are a few facts to understand here:
1. The climate is shifting faster that what we see on the news.
2. Its not just Earth but the entire solar system has been under going a VERY DRAMATIC climate shift over the past 20 years. The whole solar system including Earth, all of the planets (yes, Pluto is a planet and is also changing DRASTICALLY), all of the moons, and the Sun.
3. The Earth has been in existance for about 4,567,000,000 years and we have a clear catalog of the chifts in climate down through geological history and what it's affect were to all life on Earth.
Now with that said, allow me to correct the ignorant individual from the Navy. Forecasting what may happen is very simple to do with paleontology and paleoclimatology. I could cover multiple climactic shifts down through out geological history; the carboniferous, the cambrian, the P/T, and the K/T being some of them. But instead I will cover the most relevant and almost identical to what we are seeing today that happened 12,900 years ago, The Younger Dryas Abrupt Global Climate Shift Event. This is also called The Pleistocene Extinction Event.
During the Younger Dryas Event, the Earth undertook the most abrupt climate shift in geological history with the exception of the planet Theia striking Earth and forming our moon 4.53 billion years ago. This event brought about an abrupt shift so severe that it pushed the human race almost to extinction. Our numbers were only a few thousand per continent. The climate abruptly shifted from a temperate climate to ice age climate in less than six months. Much of the Northern hemisphere froze and became dry. This killed off not only much of the human population but also much of the pleistocene megafauna such as the Mammoths, Smilodons, Castoroides Ohioensis, Dire Wolves, American Lion, American Camel, and the Titanis Walleri. Our ancestors, the Clovis People, were nearly 100% killed off. Those remaining joined with the Folsom People and became the present day Native Americans.
1. The climate is shifting faster that what we see on the news.
2. Its not just Earth but the entire solar system has been under going a VERY DRAMATIC climate shift over the past 20 years. The whole solar system including Earth, all of the planets (yes, Pluto is a planet and is also changing DRASTICALLY), all of the moons, and the Sun.
3. The Earth has been in existance for about 4,567,000,000 years and we have a clear catalog of the chifts in climate down through geological history and what it's affect were to all life on Earth.
Now with that said, allow me to correct the ignorant individual from the Navy. Forecasting what may happen is very simple to do with paleontology and paleoclimatology. I could cover multiple climactic shifts down through out geological history; the carboniferous, the cambrian, the P/T, and the K/T being some of them. But instead I will cover the most relevant and almost identical to what we are seeing today that happened 12,900 years ago, The Younger Dryas Abrupt Global Climate Shift Event. This is also called The Pleistocene Extinction Event.
During the Younger Dryas Event, the Earth undertook the most abrupt climate shift in geological history with the exception of the planet Theia striking Earth and forming our moon 4.53 billion years ago. This event brought about an abrupt shift so severe that it pushed the human race almost to extinction. Our numbers were only a few thousand per continent. The climate abruptly shifted from a temperate climate to ice age climate in less than six months. Much of the Northern hemisphere froze and became dry. This killed off not only much of the human population but also much of the pleistocene megafauna such as the Mammoths, Smilodons, Castoroides Ohioensis, Dire Wolves, American Lion, American Camel, and the Titanis Walleri. Our ancestors, the Clovis People, were nearly 100% killed off. Those remaining joined with the Folsom People and became the present day Native Americans.