Three simple questions, and still you haven't answered one.
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I found one of many articles for you, FP.
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics...ologists-0815/
Where is the relevance to the political thread? We should make sure that all our politicians have done their research on climate change scenarios. We'll need leadership, not denial.
If you're suggesting I use hyperbole, that might be partly right. At least I do some research first, before pronouncing on something. I can't reply to your open-ended questions, but the thrust of my argument is correct. Where are your articles? Did you bother to read what I posted first?
You're probably quite right there, Sgt Pepper. A Hamilton property guru that I know has apparently been consumed with everything Trump, especially since he got elected. But it's all part of the big picture that not too many are aware of - what are the changes ahead of us all when hundreds of millions of people can't stay where they are now, but most don't have any collateral to move anyway? At the moment the rentiers are doing well - those who can afford to move are doing so, mostly for work at the moment, and some of them are coming here.
We'll need flexible, thinking politicians, who are not scared to do some research, and who trust climate scientists and planners of all types.
Oh dear, you really are projecting the past straight into the future with not a lot of consideration for what’s happening in the present, El Zorro.
This will go on for a little. . .
First up, let’s look at your supertankers. Now, given that there are only two continents in the world, the only need for supertankers is to move oil to the American continent from the EuroAfricanAsian continent, or vice versa. Oh, and to New Zealand, of course. Better dredge Northport in Whangarei, so it can cope, hadn’t we!
Now, the American continent is self-sufficient in oil (Canada/Venezuela/USA). As is the EuroAfricanAsia continent (Russia/Nigeria/Arabia). So there’s no need for anything other than pipelines and tank-cars on a rail network.
Did someone say “rail”? Ah yes. 14 days by train from China to Germany, 20 days less than by sea. Given that Euro/Africa/Asia are contiguous, there’s a lot of scope for those “One Belt/One Road” initiatives to expand.
Second up, why oil anway?
At the moment, a lot of oil is burnt as transport fuel. Electric vehicles take that away. So we don’t need so many supertankers anyway, because there’s far less demand for the oil they transport.
And after all, solar doesn’t need fuel, nor does hydro, and both run 24/7, so there’s no shortage of transport fuel. Just flip the switch and recharge.
Third up, and last but not least, cheap goods from China. Yep, harder to come by in the Americas (and New Zealand, of course), but not in the Euro/African/Asian continent, with it’s rail network (electrified, of course).
So yes, we will see massive disruption, but it won’t come as you seem to anticipate. There won’t necessarily be less trade, in fact there will probably be more trade. But the patterns and the mechanisms will be quite different from what we see today. Intra-continental, rather than inter-continental.
Oh, a PS - as for your scientists cowering in their bolt-holes, well I rather think that those bolt-holes won’t be in some inaccessible place offshore from one of the two continents.