Re: OT: interesting global warming quote found elsewhwere

In <a6347502-bc82-4a2c-b474-787e17d3b7dd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
bill.sloman@xxxxxxxx wrote in part:

Mankind hasn't been around long enough to have run into a seriously
warm climate. For about 40 million years - between 60 and 100 milion
years ago - the climate was lot warmer and there were crocodiles
living inside the arctic and antarctic circle. In order to get the
heat balance to work, it seems to be necessary to postulate lots of
intense hurricanes and typhoons extending much further north and south
from the equator to more enough heat to of the tropics to the poles.
The coast of California wouldn't have be a good place to live in that
era.

So how warm was the world when we had much higher CO2 and no icecaps or
ice sheets? 7, maybe 10 degrees C warmer than it is now?

Now, what is the ratio of warming of the Califormia cost to warming of
the whole globe according to climate models that are coming up more true
so far, and according to whatever historical data says anything about
California?
It appears to me that California will warm up a little less than the
world as a whole during the summer and about keep pace in the winter - and
lag many decades also, since coastal CA's air is usually from the Pacific
Ocean.

How bad would it be if LA and San Diego become more like Acapulco and SF
becomes like San Diego or a degree or two warmer than San Diego is now?

The worst I see for coastal CA if the world gets that warm is having to
move a couple hundred meters uphill - which is not far. And high food
prices from agriculture being in the process of adapting to climate
shifts.

- Don Klipstein (don@xxxxxxxxx)
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