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Climate Challenges and Astonishing Facts: Understanding the Earth's Complexity

Dive into intriguing facts about Earth's history, climate system, and future impacts. Explore causes of extinctions and future scenarios due to human activity. Discover reasons to care about global ecosystems and the urgency for a mental shift towards sustainable progress. Reflect on our place in the vast ecological spectrum and potential advancements in nuclear fusion technology for a brighter future.

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Climate Challenges and Astonishing Facts: Understanding the Earth's Complexity

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  1. PART 1CHALLENGES

  2. A few amazing FACTS:

  3. A few amazing FACTS:● The Earth was never so cold

  4. A few amazing FACTS:● The Earth was never so cold● Temperature does not follow CO2

  5. A few amazing FACTS:● The Earth was never so cold● Temperature does not follow CO2● CO2 not the strongest greenhouse gas

  6. A few amazing FACTS:● The Earth was never so cold● Temperature does not follow CO2● CO2 not the strongest greenhouse gas ● From ‘40-’75 and since 2000 no rise

  7. Climate HISTORY = FACT = “EASY” Climate FUTURE = ”FICTION” = COMPLEX

  8. Alpine glaciers Sea ice Continental ice sheet

  9. Glaciers are not simply melting, but disintegrating

  10. Arctic albedo “Arctic death cycle”

  11. Larsen-C, Nov. 2016

  12. “Laag van Usselo”(Layer of Usselo, East Netherlands)

  13. The Great Ocean Conveyor Permafrost methane

  14. Gas hydrate on the ocean floor

  15. ... without extinction, no evolution...

  16. “Big Five” ExtinctionsEnd-OrdovicianLate DevonianEnd-PermianEnd-TriassicEnd-Cretaceous (“K/T”) Suggesed main causesSea-level falls Flood basalts Impact event Other causes (also of smaller extinctions):Global cooling / warming, “Clathrate Gun”, Anoxic events in oceans,Hydrogen sulphide emissions from oceans, Oceanic overturn, Nearby nova, super-nova or gamma-ray bursts..(Near) future causes: HUMAN ACTIVITY..?

  17. SOLAR WIND HYDROPOWER NAT.GAS OIL COAL

  18. SOLAR WIND HYDROPOWER NAT.GAS OIL Morale:“That which God made staticshouldremain static” COAL

  19. Conclusions:● The climate system is vast, complex and unpredictable

  20. Conclusions:● The climate system is vast, complex and unpredictable ● We’re currently living in a near infinitesimal bandwidth of the ecological spectrum

  21. Conclusions:● The climate system is vast, complex and unpredictable ● We’re currently living in a near infinitesimal bandwidth of the ecological spectrum● Human caused impact is real but should not be the main motivation for (technological) progress

  22. Why care:

  23. Why care: 3. Global ecosystem

  24. Why care: 2. Current species and civilisation – scarcity, famine, war, mass migrations 3. Global ecosystem

  25. Why care:1. Mentality shift – tackle inequality, poverty, big oil monopoly, etc..2. Current species and civilisation – scarcity, famine, war, mass migrations 3. Global ecosystem

  26. Cark Sagan:“The Pale Blue Dot”Feb. 14, 1990 Can we thrive and guaranteeabundance within the confinesof this ecological niche?

  27. Toward utilising the supra-mundanepotentialities of the Universe

  28. Natural nuclear fusion = star Nuclear fusion reactor

  29. ITER - Projected time line: 2025: First plasma 2035: Deuterium-Tritium operation

  30. Dark matter web:The cosmic template of creationThe original macrocosmic ectoplasm?

  31. Galaxy clusters forming in the dark matter web

  32. To be continued...

  33. PART 2SOLUTIONS

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