{"id":373960,"date":"2018-08-19T01:12:11","date_gmt":"2018-08-19T00:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/hothouse-earth\/"},"modified":"2018-08-19T01:12:11","modified_gmt":"2018-08-19T00:12:11","slug":"hothouse-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/hothouse-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Hothouse Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>An interesting new study: \u201cTrajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene,\u201d Will Steffen, Johan Rockstr\u00f6m et al, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Aug. 6, 2018 lays out the pathway for Earth entering a Hothouse Climate State.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur planet is still in danger of becoming a \u2018Hothouse\u2019 Earth despite our current efforts to manage global warming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Counter-intuitively, that sounds like a breath of fresh air, meaning, get the bad news out of the way ahead of time so people can brace for it, no surprises. Assuming the Hothouse Planet happens, certain areas would be uninhabitable as global temps crank up to 4C-to-5C beyond pre-industrial. The planet would be gnarled and unattractive, a nasty place to live, no more Goldilocks climate. And, all kinds of warfare would breakout as mobs vie for tillable land.<\/p>\n<p>The article\u2019s general thesis is that, as of today, the planet retains its Goldilocks \u201cnot too hot, not too cold\u201d swagger because of a series of natural mechanisms that \u201cmaintain a balance,\u201d for example, carbon sinks, like the ocean or like the Amazon Rain Forest keep the balance in place. In fact, the study identifies ten tipping elements that maintain a balance for the planet, any one of which, once out of whack, would cascade into all the others, bringing on the onset of a hothouse planet.<\/p>\n<p>Assuming the world exceeds the 2C pre-industrial marker set by the Paris Agreement, the study envisions a dangerous out of control spiral&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/08\/17\/hothouse-earth\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting new study: \u201cTrajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene,\u201d Will Steffen, Johan Rockstr\u00f6m et al, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Aug. 6, 2018 lays out the pathway for Earth entering a Hothouse Climate State. \u201cOur planet is still in danger of becoming a \u2018Hothouse\u2019 Earth despite our current efforts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-373960","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}