Alaska's Mt. Redoubt Has Erupted

alaskana98 writes "Alaska's Mt. Redoubt volcano has erupted 3 times, with the first event starting at 10:38 PM Alaska standard time. The ash cloud is estimated to be higher than 50,000 feet. So far, only light ash fall is predicted for areas north of Anchorage."

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Re:Send in Al Gore

[Doc Ruby]

The Greenhouse pipeline of effects from causes is long enough (years) that any event depopulating the Earth enough to stop significant new human contributions would be just the beginning of many years of the climate returning to its recently mild and stable state. Sealevel rise alone, not to mention droughts, floods and storms, will probably displace hundreds of millions of refugees. Most of whom live in or near places already close to subsistence and close to the edge of war or other mass violence - or collapse of their civilization.

Our civilization is fragile, compared to the destruction that is likely if we don't reverse our Greenhouse pollution quite soon. If we wait 30 years, two human generations (especially in most coastal areas), we're probably going to be depopulated by several billion people, after at least that many are forced to flee to other areas and conflict with the people already there. Such changes are vastly more than what would destroy our civilization.