Dr. Gwynne Dyer gave a talk, "Geopolitics in a Hotter World" – Sept. 2010<p>> So when the Hadley Centre put these numbers out they were incorporating (which the IPCC does not) the early impacts of positive feedbacks, as well as just how much carbon dioxide will we put into the air by 2060. First time that had been done, but it gives you a really frightening number…and then they did the map. Which is again, something that’s not normally done, and the consequence is we don’t have a lot of time. We’re in deep trouble. And the military know this; the military know this everywhere.<p>> the rule of thumb is that you lose 10% of global food production for every 1 degree Celsius higher average global temperature.<p>> So food becomes the critical issue and the countries most impacted are tropical and subtropical and this is where the geopolitics comes from.<p>> “people always raid before they starve.”<p>> There’s already a well established pattern: when you’re in deep trouble and you can’t feed your family, head north.<p>> But the dirty secret is that you can only shut a border if you’re willing to kill people.<p>> No government that cannot feed its population survives.<p>> We’re going to go through the point of no return (and probably a good deal further) in terms of the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Almost certain.<p>> And there is maybe a way to cheat: and that is geoengineering.<p>> “we’ve crunched the numbers and we figure we could get one degree Celsius of cooling average worldwide just by painting all the roads and the roofs white.”<p>> I talked–actually, the head of the Bangladesh Institute of Strategic Studies about this (you didn’t even know that existed, did you?). Well, there is one, it’s quite serious–run by a General, bright guy. I said, “have you heard about geoengineering?” and he smiled–seraphically–and he said, “Mmm. Yes. Your question?”<p>> And I asked the question, “Do you think that this is something the Bangladesh government might want to do a little bit, before, let’s say, the US government or the Chinese government?”<p>> He said, “yes it has crossed our minds.”–and then he stopped talking.<p>...<p>Talk: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc_4Z1oiXhY" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc_4Z1oiXhY</a><p>Transcribed: <a href="https://spaswell.wordpress.com/2016/11/18/dr-gwynne-dyer-geopolitics-in-a-hotter-world-ubc-talk-transcribed-sept-2010/" rel="nofollow">https://spaswell.wordpress.com/2016/11/18/dr-gwynne-dyer-geo...</a>