xbacksideslider said:
So what, if the latitude of heat/cold slowly moves north or south over the next 500 or 1000 years?
Different peoples, different countries will gain or lose, so what?
All of life on earth has adapted to hundreds of such changes in the past.
So what?
The climate folks looking at Antarctica and Greenland are saying there is enough ice there
to raise the sea level possibly as much as 9 metres (28 feet) and more.
Quite a lot of humanity, and a lot of (big) cities are (well) below that level.
And the hot/cold movement is potentialy warming a lot of that ice.
If you are higher, someone may eventually want your bit of dirt, forcibly ??
500/1000 years will see a very different world ???
You rarely hear a politician speak knowledgeably about climate change.
They don't want to scare the voters, and pollies rarely think long term, beyond the next election. ?
Its only the thinkers and the think tanks acting long term that are doing anything...
We have missed the point here a little with the intent of ethanol fuels though.
Folks, and machinery are being prepared for alternative fuels, in case it is needed sometime SOON.
Whether through climate change anticipation, or war or other interruptions to petroleum supplies.
Leccy vehicles, combined with solar generation, seem to be coming on leaps and bounds.
Even see a few locally - who'd a thunk.
Electric was also relatively popular back in the 1900s, but they lost out to the newfangled infernal combustion engines...
BTW, the Weather Bureau are taking bets with themselves as to when the 1st Category 6 Hurricane or Cyclone appears.
Several recently have gone close. (The scale currently only goes to Cat 5).
A lot of civilisation will be blown away if or when this happens = big shift in populations required.
Guarding borders with dogs may not be enough....