Re: Sleep is a Good Thing(TM)
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Well no the actual worse case is we hit a tipping point where the system runaways and we make Earth like her sister planet – Venus.
What utter and complete bollocks.
Theres nothing man could do to turn the earth into venus, for that to happen we'd need to raise the temperature in the tropics to about 70C, because then the water in the air wont fall as rain, and just acts as another greenhouse gas making the earth hotter... hence the oceans boil away and we get encased in a steam bath.
Thats the runaway point and we're nowhere near that and wont be for another 1.5 billion years(give or take an ice age) when the sun's thermal output has risen by about 10-15%
In fact regardless of what we do, in 250 thousand years or so we're going into an ice age whether we want to or not....
Biting the hand that feeds IT
