Abstract:  Hypothesis:  Global warming may result in ambient 
temperatures to go to 136 degrees Fahrenheit in many areas, 
extincting all heat sensitive unadaptable life within 3 or 4 
breeding periods (maybe about 75 years or less depending 
upon the breeding life of the mammal).

At those temperatures, (about 50 degrees centigrade), 
temperature re-equilibrium from the equator to the poles 
could induce hurricanes with 480 mile per hour winds.

This isn't entirely bad news as it would create another form 
of transportation.  By simply flying a strong kite with at 
least 500 lb. line, all you would have to do is hold on for 
dear life and you are off to the land of oz.

When we were kids a 20 mile per hour in the Van Nuys, 
California March winds made us hold on to our "Cloud Buster" 
kites with both hands.  Often the string broke or the Cloud 
Buster kite folded up in two.

Either one would increase our penance at Saturday Confession 
as we would exclaim, "dear me, my new kite's string appears 
to have broken; and it appears that i have lost my kite.";   
hopefully, out of earshot of the all-seeing and omniscient 
nuns which, was generally not possible.  

Ocean water temperature changes could reacclimatize vast 
portions of the earth with different local and general 
weather (temperature equilibrium) patterns.

But make no mistake, this whole thing is just a big guessing 
game by Joseph_Sixpack at this point.  i suspect very few 
people really have a handle on the subject.



                  Nice thinking Dudley...

Well, this is one hypothesis that i hope doesn't come to 
pass.  BUT polar melting is even now releasing huge 
quantities of carbon dioxide and methane into the 
atmosphere.  Much of this carbon dioxide is absorbed by the 
oceans and waters and plants of the earth and much of it is 
not.

Global warming, if unbound, could create a thick cloud layer 
in response, generated off the oceans and wet areas of the 
earth.

This cover could act as a buffer (temperature fence) 
hopefully against too high a temperature rise or we could 
argue that the increased cloud cover would act a barrier to 
the temperature dissipation events of earth surface 
temperatures..

You figure it out...

The final dynamics and climatic events of global warming are 
totally beyond a joseph_sixpack.  We will just have to wait 
and see.  But move to a little higher ground if you are 
living under sea level now and stay away from high 
probability hurricane and chubasco areas unless you have 
webbed feet and/or an inflatable ducky.



               The little train that couldn't

China's new Tibetan railway has a small portion built over 
270 miles of permafrost will be an unwelcome casualty of 
global warming as will be a lot of Alaska's infrastructure 
which is built over the then and now melting permafrost.

Melting permafrost under the heavily pressured rail system 
is going to make for a wobbly ride to Tibet.

The train might head off to India or Bhutan sans its rail 
support if the loopy bumper car ride gets goofy enough.

A lot of permafrost melting is going on now as we speak.  
er... read, er... type.



                     Grow what? where?

If ambient air temperatures do manage to reach an average of 
136 degrees worldwide, food production and perhaps, even 
distribution for the remains of the population will have to 
occur in the cool of the underground or at night, as will 
the majority of human existence and their activities.

Some computer modeling, i am told, suggests that food 
production within the old areas would no longer be adequate 
to feed earth's existing population due to the prospective 
climate changes, raising the specter of massive starvation 
of literally in the billions.  That is with a "B".  
Accelerated topsoil erosion isn't going to make anybody any 
happier either. 



                   Oh say can you breath?

As a longshot, production of oxygen creating plankton in the 
surface temperature sensitive areas might come to an end 
with the surface temperatures of the water being simply too 
hot.  And hot water doesn't sink, cold water does.

The adaptability of the human race remains to be seen 
however, in this possible new "challenge" of adaptability 
upon a changing earth that is suggested, that it is a change 
of their own making.

The situation hopefully may however reach some sort of 
equilibrium enabling the balance of the population to remain 
somewhat static in numbers.

For how long the hot conditions would exist is anybody's 
guess.



                       Swift slimeys

Certainly some cold blooded animals, now more active, and 
now more energetic, would become more populous and probably 
select in species that have developed external 'cooling 
fins' for the dissipation of the now substantial generated 
body heat.  The slow snakes might not be so slow anymore.

Bats, living in the cool of caves, coming out at night 
would find an increasing abundance of insects.  That is, if 
the bats themselves could survive in the increased hostile 
heat environment.

What effect the rising heat levels would have on the 
propagation of warm-blooded insects (yes, there are some) is 
anybody's guess.

The equilibrium and dynamics of heat transfer to the poles 
(hurricanes & typhoons & chubascos) would of course be 
expected to change somewhat, if not a lot in strike areas 
and wind velocities..

Warming now is apparently beyond man's ability to reverse 
his mistakes.  Once the polar regions started to melt, i am 
told, it was all over with.  

Melting Andean mountain glaciers have long sent out their 
sirens of concern, alas, with no one to listen except those 
who made it to the top and could discern, their surprising 
diminishment.

It is too much to ask a thoughtless humanity to curtail the 
many thousands of aircraft flights daily that is alleged to 
contribute to the problem so heavily.  Does the particulate 
drop the temperature or increase it?

The science of the subject is way, way, way, beyond the 
abilities of a joseph_sixpack to perceive even a groping 
hypothesis concerning the subject.  We will just have to 
wait and see.  For sure, time will tell.



                           So...

Okay, what did we end up with?

In the first part of Joseph_Sixpack's Opus Dopus, the world 
is going to end because we are all thieves and idiots 
allowing the top soil to blow away and using up almost 
everything besides, that the future will need to survive.
                             or
The entire galaxy is going to end smushing into a black hole 
or any of the other cosmic nasty events that occur from time 
to time upon little tiny spheres that go 'round and 'round.
                             or
An egg frying good time from the next scenario this disaster 
forecaster which is global (really hot) warming 'cause we 
run our SUV's and airplanes too much for our own good.  So 
kill the world for our own convenience.
                             so
You pays your money and takes your choice.  personally, i 
think we ought to take a vote and come to an agreement on 
how we want the world and/or species to come to an end.
                             or
In the alternative, turn on the evening news to watch just 
what we are allowed by putrid central, (as distinguished 
from 'evil central') which is the current car chase or/and 
all the other mindless, pointless, moral-less, vapid 
happenings.  

Given our quick extinction hypothesis, perhaps the future 
has some hope after all, if the next batch of humanity has 
more brains than this batch.  Our short eternity will tell.

okay, that's it for the dark, dank, dirty, dopey, dismal, 
dingy, depressing, blab...  so...  to cheer myself up, i am 
going to take advantage of my current prejudgment status and 
go to the coffee shop for a nice tall hot Au Lait.

And then to the ice cream parlor to consume a banana split 
AND a root beer float and enjoy the pretty sunsets at 
twilight.  And then later, perhaps some fish tacos for 
dinner.  so there.    nightly news following...

(come to think of it, all the food doesn't sound like a very 
healthy idea after all - maybe just a couple of tacos.)

For those upon the earth who have been captured within God's 
Justice, i respectfully and humbly request that you pray for 
the removal of the stench surrounding my soul, i hate 
spending time in purgatory getting purged.


                      added March 2009

Well...  Thermodynamics is not Joe's forte.

After thinking about it for a while, it seems that another 
scenario might be the more probable one, at least in the 
early stages of global warming.

As the surface of the earth heats up and the methane starts 
to boil (gassify) out of the ground and seas, equatorial & 
polar temperature readjustments will create much more 
evaporation of moisture from the seas, holding down any 
temperature elevation of severe consequence for a while.  
The occurring events will just be a LOT more 'rainstorms' 
all over the place.  Maybe hurricanes and tornadoes too.

BUT... what may as well occur could be best called 'hot 
spots'.  These are like the small geographic areas of high 
pressure currently in place or existence that cause a 'hot 
spell' during the summer or Indian summer times.

The hot spots are sort of like the currently dangerous hot 
spells in the cities during the summer when the temperature 
gets to hovering around the 90 to 100+ degree mark for a few 
days or weeks.

Kids play around the fire hydrants and the vulnerable or old 
citizens in the small closed apartments and rooms start 
suffering from heat prostration.

The only difference is that the global warming hi-pressure 
hot spots may be in excess of the old 100 degree mark and 
may be as high as the earlier 136 degree mark.  These moving 
small areas of 'super-heat' may replace today's 'hot spells' 
that we now have with the exception that as these 'super- 
heat' hot spots move across the face of the earth, nothing 
will remain alive behind them.

To model the concept and to get an idea of what it may be 
like on a modeling basis, take a pencil and with the erasure 
end, move it lightly across a small 12 inch students globe 
and consider its aftermath.

This is as best as a joe can do explaining the possible new  
thermodynamics that await us in a global warming world.  If 
correct, then it is a 'Everybody underground' time until the 
hot spot passes on.  Sort of like hiding from a giant 
hurricane or tornado except the cellar is going to have to 
be a tad deeper to maintain its coolness.

Further considerations for a disaster forecaster is the 
naughty prospect of crop damage due to global warming.

Extreme weather, or too much rainfall, does not equal 
farming weather.

Extremes in weather washes away topsoil, flattens corn, 
kills livestock, and does another one hundred things 
unknowable to a joe sixpack.

Unknowable to a joe as well is whether there will be MORE 
and bigger hailstorms that will dent your new painted tin 
buggy or bonk you on the noggin.

The temps upstairs are still going to be on the cold side, 
but what happens to the hail on the way down remains to be 
experienced with the 'new' heat engines patrolling the 
planet. 

we'll just have to wait and see what reality will hold for 
us as a thoughtless group of people, ignorant of the 
consequences of our mindless collective activities...