Nature doesn’t need humans, but we have inflicted so much damage on the environment that if humans were removed from the planet tomorrow, the oceans will still experience a regime shift, and we will still have catastrophic climate change.
We have focused on carbon as the solution for climate change, but it is only part of the problem, and maybe even just a small part. Water vapour pressure and biogenic aerosol formation from the ocean SML layer could be responsible for as much as 80% of climate disruption.
Countries most at risk are those that are impacted by atmospheric pollution and loss of the SML, so all countries around the Mediterranean, the Arctic and Antarctic, high latitude countries, South America New Zealand, Australia. The climate disruption will be droughts, no clouds, high humidity, high pressure, followed by torrential downpours and strong winds of up to 200km/hr that just last for maybe 20 minutes.
Countries subject to aerosol pollution from the burning of coal or trees, for example the horrific torrential floods in Pakistan were blamed on climate change, they were more likely to have been caused by atmospheric pollution from China.
Unless we stop the cycle, the extremes will become more and more violent.
