Extrapolating Nightmares

THE MOST FRIGHTENING THING about the recent horrible monsoon flood which left one third of Pakistan underwater is that it is destined to happen again..and again, just like the monsson season itself. Certainly, every monson season is different, if only slightly. But the one this year which brought unusually large amounts of rain is destined to keep bringing more and more rain, as the Earth's atmosphere keeps warming, and the amount of moisture in the atmosphere increases. There may come a time when most of Pakistan is underwater most of the time. Large parts of it might have to be permanently evacuated. It may be soon. The rate of sea level rise is only going to increase, the waters rising ever more rapidly as more and more of the Earth's huge polar ice caps melt increasingly repidly, dumping billions of tons of water into the ocean. Half the human population lives near an ocean, and it will all have to relocate inland. Droughts are already increasing around the world in number and severity, due to man made climate change, as are horrible, extreme flooding episodes. The same is true of wind and storms, land and sea. More of them, and they're getting bigger. Young people of today, and those newly coming into this world will live to see a world of constantly violent, extreme weather, and, in most places, much, much hotter. People who are now senior citizens or entering into senior citizenship will also live long enough to see some very drastic near term changes, as we already are, but will be fortunate enough to transition to the next state before it gets really bad here on Earth, will desperate economic collapses, mass migration, violence and wars and political turmoil, food shortages, rempant disease, all caused by extreme, nearly unendurable climatic conditions world wide. Temperatures well over one hundred degress for weeks and months at a time. Frequent violent sstorms, tornadoes and hurricanes. Severe droughts lasting months, turning forests into deserts and rivers to dust. We are now reachign the point at which this is going to transpire no matter what we do. Only by taking drastic action now can we and our descendants avert this nightmarish future.