Climate Change Will End Racism

I paraphrase

Rice University Professor Scott Solomon predicts, well, something.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/science...ations-phase-really-dark-pale-skin-tones.html

Will global warming spell the end of racial differences? Climate change is triggering mass migrations that could phase out really dark and pale skin tones, biologist claims

• In just 125 years, there may be far fewer people with really dark or pale skin tones
• This is according to Scott Solomon, a biologist at Rice University, in Houston
• As people become more physically similar, racism is likely to be less common

By Phoebe Weston For Mailonline

Published: 08:20 EDT, 14 September 2018 | Updated: 11:02 EDT, 14 September 2018

Global warming could spell the end of racial differences because climate change will trigger massive migrations, a prominent scientist has claimed.

In just 125 years, there may be far fewer people with really dark skin or pale skin tones, according to Scott Solomon a biologist at Rice University in Houston.

More and more people will have olive and brown-coloured complexions, according to Dr Solomon who wrote an in-depth feature for MACH.

As people become more physically similar to one another, racism is increasingly likely to become a thing of the past, he claims.

According to the 2017 International Migration Report by the UN, there are now 258 million people living in a country other than the one they were born in.

This is an increase of 49 per cent since 2000.

By 2050, 143 million 'climate migrants' will face an 'existential threat' and be displaced, the World Bank said in a report published earlier this year.

That includes 86 million in Sub-Saharan Africa, 40 million in South Asia and 17 million in Latin America.

'These migrations will erode the geographic barriers that once separated human populations', said Dr Solomon.

The wave of refugees fleeing crop failures, droughts and rising sea levels is set to further grow drastically over the next three decades.

'One consequence of large-scale migrations is what biologists call gene flow, a type of evolution caused by the blending of genes between populations,' said Dr Solomon.

Over thousands of years, our ancestors developed different skin colours that generally resembled the intensity of sun in different regions.

However, due to sunscreen and other vitamins, natural selection is less important in dictating the colour of people's skin.

'Because skin colour is controlled by many genes, parents whose skin colour differs tend to have children with intermediate skin tones,' said Dr Solomon, who is author of 'Future Humans: Inside the Science of Our Continuing Evolution.'

'And so in five to 10 generations (125 to 250 years), we may see fewer people with dark skin or pale skin and more with a brown or olive complexion.

'Having both dark skin and light eyes may become more common.'

In the US for example, the number of multiracial births has already risen from one per cent in 1970 to ten per cent in 2013.

This is expected to increase in the future, with multiracial populations projected to grow by 174 per cent over the next 40 years.

'As people around the world become more physically similar to one another, it's possible that racism might slowly fade,' he said.
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related article as luck would have it. Governor Jerry Moonbeam Brown flashes the universal white supremacy secret hand signal while holding a press conference announcing his plans to have California launch a satellite to track climate change. My opinion is that he is sending mixed signals about climate change.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/science/article/Brown-announces-California-plan-to-launch-13230706.php

Brown announces California plan to launch satellite to track climate change

Kurtis Alexander Sep. 14, 2018 Updated: Sep. 14, 2018 5:43 p.m.
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Gov. Jerry Brown said Friday that California will launch a satellite into space to track and gather data on global warming, a symbolic, if not far-reaching, move that comes as President Trump threatens to hamstring the climate work of NASA.

The governor’s announcement was made on the final day of the Global Climate Action Summit, which brought thousands of mayors, regional leaders and corporate executives to San Francisco to motivate communities to do more to halt the planet’s warming as Washington has disengaged.

Brown’s office has begun partnering with San Francisco-based Earth imaging company Planet Labs to build a satellite to measure the heat-trapping pollutants in the atmosphere and identify their sources, officials said. A price tag for the satellite and a launch date have not been specified.

“With science still under attack and the climate threat growing, we’re launching our own damn satellite,” Brown said. “This groundbreaking initiative will help governments, businesses and landowners pinpoint — and stop — destructive emissions with unprecedented precision, on a scale that’s never been done before.”

News of California’s satellite was among an abundance of pomp and pageantry on Friday when some of the week’s biggest names took the stage, including musician Dave Matthews, former Secretary of State John Kerry and chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall.

Former Vice President Al Gore, speaking Friday morning, echoed a common theme at the three-day summit: that Trump’s denial of climate change is leading the nation and the world to a dangerous point that includes the intense wildfires in California, drought across the American West and flooding and famine far beyond.

“How far down that rabbit hole are people going to follow?” Gore said to a fired-up crowd. “We have to wake up. We are alive in this moment. We have to take action.”

The summit, unlike the well-known Paris conference three years earlier, was not meant to forge a landmark deal to stave off global warming and bears just a fraction of the significance. The Paris accord had more than 170 nations agreeing to specific greenhouse gas reductions

In San Francisco, delegates from more than 100 nations will return home with only faint memories of less grandiose promises, such as using more renewable energy, electrifying their vehicle fleets and increasing investment in greenhouse-gas-reduction technologies.

But the 4,500 attendees say they will leave with a renewed sense of vigor. The Trump administration’s vow to abandon the Paris climate agreement had left a cloud over efforts to combat global warming. The summit made clear that the fight is still on.

“We said, ‘If you’re out, we’re in,’” said Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, one of Friday’s keynote speakers. “We are doing it for ourselves, because we are the ones who cannot deny reality.”

Garcetti’s comments followed the release of a report from an international network of cities that suggested local headway is indeed being made.

Globally, 27 big cities, including San Francisco and Los Angeles, have seen greenhouse-gas emissions fall over the past five years and are now at least 10 percent below their peak levels, said the report, prepared by C40 Cities.

Scientists say emissions worldwide must top off and begin to decline by 2020 to prevent the most catastrophic consequences of warming, including more extreme heat waves, wildfire and drought.

Kerry, who also spoke Friday, praised the bottom-up efforts of cities and states to tackle climate change, but he acknowledged the reality that local action can only accomplish so much.

“The truth is we’re not anywhere near where we need to be with respect to the overall challenge,” he said. “The danger is not that we won’t get there at some point in time. The danger is we’re not going to get there on time.”

The summit, which Brown put together amid Trump’s decision to back out of the Paris deal, closed with the governor’s pledge to launch a satellite.

The satellite observations, according to Brown’s staff, would be used to create a Climate Data Partnership that will be made available for anyone, including governments, businesses and independent scientists, studying climate variables in the Earth’s atmosphere.

The new data on where and how much pollution is occurring, officials said, will enhance state efforts to crack down on greenhouse-gas emissions and help remove the equivalent of about 200 million vehicles from the road each year.

Planet Labs, which NASA scientists founded in 2010, will run the mission with oversight from the California Air Resources Board. The company is one of the world’s leading satellite developers, having launched more than 150 satellites in the past two years.

Seed money for the project is coming from the private sector, according to Brown’s office.

The Trump administration, meanwhile, has been working to demobilize NASA’s Carbon Monitoring System, a program that uses aircraft and satellites to track greenhouse-gas pollution.

In 2016, Brown made headlines when he spoke at a conference at the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco and told attendees that if Trump scaled back its climate satellite program, California would step up with one of its own.

Climate researchers praised Brown’s announcement as a serious step in halting greenhouse gases.

“To my knowledge, this is the first state or regional entity to launch a satellite anywhere in the world,” said Fred Krupp, president of the Environmental Defense Fund, an environmental advocacy group that is planning a similar satellite program to monitor methane emissions. “It’s fantastic that they’re doing this.”

Krupp said his group’s satellite is expected to cost in the “tens of millions of dollars.”

Kurtis Alexander is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: kalexander@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @kurtisalexander
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