I wrote this in a related thread but if this is true there will be wars the likes of which we have never seen as Global Climate Change (GCC) escalates. We will fight no holds barred wars. We will use whatever weapons at our disposal to win these wars. They will be wars for natural resources, and I mean basic resources like water. And because they will be war for survival the 'rules' we see now will not apply. The only consideration will be to win… especially if you are fighting for something as basic as water.
Tipping points are real: Gradual changes in CO2 levels can induce abrupt climate changes. During the last glacial period, within only a few decades the influence of atmospheric CO2 on the North Atlantic circulation resulted in temperature increases of up to 10 degrees Celsius in Greenland -- as indicated by new climate calculations. Source 7b.
Global warming isn't something to be messing around with as if its something optional. Global warming is here to stay and its going to get hotter every year until water is going to be more valuable than oil!
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I don't think water itself is going to get that rare, but drinkable water might. Between the pollution we are pumping into the ground and water as it is and rising ocean levels, it will either be too toxic or too salty to be usable as is. Luckily filtering salt out of water is not an overly hard process, but if we have to filter water and then transport it a large distance, that can start to get very costly.
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Alchyrogue,
That is exactly correct. And there is no might be about it if the reports I've been reading are true. And it's isn't just drinking water but water for irrigation. We are already starting to see friction here as countries siphon off more and more water. I know this is hard to fathom on our planet, as full of water as it is, but these are credible reports prepared by the intelligence community, all unclassified and easy to access, that paint a rather dismal picture of a possible future and a lot of this future is based partly on climate change and partly on population growth.
Could spraying particles into marine clouds help cool the planet? A first test of humans' ability to modify clouds would help explain the behavior of clouds and aerosols, while also testing a possible future climate emergency measure. Source 2e.