Senator Whitehouse: "It May Be Too Late"

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29. Indeed.

At approximately 50 minutes into this video Colonel Larry Wilkerson, Colin Powell's chief of staff, says that a NASA climatologist told him that under a worst case scenario by 2100 there would only be enough arable land on the planet for 400 million people. This video is more than a decade old and we have seen that we keep hitting the mark for the IPCC worst case scenarios.
Rising sea level is already a problem for places like Miami, Kolkata, Lagos, Shanghai, etc. but by the time enough anthropogenic energy has been released into our biosphere to raise sea level two meters, enough energy will have been released into the atmosphere to cause serial cereal grain harvest failures and the starvation of billions. Only about 3% of anthropogenic energy released goes into melting ice. The latent heat of fusion of water means that this small amount causes only slow sea level rise. Even with ice shelf destabilization the real danger for most of humanity is starvation.

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