Earth's temperature is rising. And rising to such an extent that we could soon be unable to cope or grow our food.
The reality of those temperatures, and how such threatens our near future, is well known to the science community.
They drove the development of “Ice Ages”, as the earth tried to develop some semblance of balance, followed by periods of relatively stable temperatures conducive to life.
The world’s science community now speaks with one mind with respect to rapid global warming.
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Added this 22nd Day of October, 2011:
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/10/21/world/americas/climate-study-warming-real/index.html
'New climate study deals blow to skeptics'
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Wealthy individuals and Corporations who paid purportedly “skeptical scientists” to state that our understanding of such was based on insufficient knowledge of what is continuing to happen, have been found out.
However, there is no need, nor anything to be gained, by naming such individuals, such 'skeptics' or Corporations.
That they actually tried to slow efforts to wake the world to the reality that our planet, due, in part, to inputs of some 7 Billion people and the Billions of animals raised for meat, is developing a “runaway GreenHouse heating condition”, suggests that the reason behind our failure to face the facts is our collective infection by the madness of greed.
That we might be able to reverse the rising temperatures is doubtful.
Yet it should be recognized that failing to end our massive contribution to global warming via the use of fossil fuels, especially coal, guarantees the development of an atmosphere within which few, if any, will survive.
Indeed! Added this January 7, 2011 (And, please, listen to and understand this message!):
The message, given to us every day through new understanding of what has happened and will soon happen, including the release of methane through the permafrost in our northern latitudes, SCREAMS that we STOP what we are doing and prepare to live with much less than most can presently envision.
Imagine this insanity! - Unfortunately, our collective greed acts to deny the majority any meaningful possibility of developing knowledge, awareness and determination sufficient to confront the horror of an uncontrollable heating of our planet.
We are left with the reality that very few care to consider what individuals must do in order that humanity regain some form of sanity and confront this crisis as best we may.
In the early days of motorsports and events such as “The Indy 500”, race officials would invariably use the phrase “Gentlemen! Start your engines!”.
They, then, didn’t know what our flagrant misuse of oil, gas and other fossil fuels would lead to.
Now we know that humanity’s very survival is at stake; that we must start thinking of what has happened, why it happened . . . and what we must do in order to save our world:
Gentlemen!
Stop Your Engines!
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And Take the Pledge for Climate Protection!
Go to:
http://www.culturechange.org/cms/content/view/201/52/
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The above identifies the threat we face.
Alas! What is required of us shall be much more difficult to identify and understand.
We must strive to have all understand that each successive decade since the 70’s has been warmer, on average, than the previous decade.
The failure of the Kyoto Accords and the Copenhagen summit to help us confront the reality of “Global Warming” can be readily understood when we acknowledge that our purported “Leaders” refused to consider various ways by which Humanity can mount an effective response.
A response that must lead to a FULL STOP of all activities that exacerbate the problem, including the poisoning of our air, water and the soils upon which we depend to grow our food; especially by Corporations that are determined to continue what they are doing, regardless the costs and consequences to all others in order that their insatiable hunger for profits somehow be met.
Note that the catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico and the severe losses suffered by the people hundreds of miles from the site of BP's "Blowout" displays the reality of Corporate greed; and our wilful ignorance of the now unavoidable future costs and consequences.
Our leaders refuse to do such due, they say, concerns for the “Energy” requirements of the Corporations that have installed them in power. A “Power” that they know can be wrested from their hands at any moment they fail to have the balance of humanity heed and abide by the demands of such Corporations.
It must also be recognized that suggestions as voiced at the failed Copenhagen Summit that we permit the planet to heat several more degrees before we take meaningful action, CONFIRMS our infection by the madness of greed.
If we permit that rise in temperature before deciding to act, we must recognize that such dooms all hopes that we will develop discipline sufficient to stop all activity related to our present dependence on fossil fuels.
STATED SIMPLY:
In order to save our world we must IGNORE the prevailing political winds AND heed the message:
“Stop Your Engines!”
It must be acknowledged that demands that we ignore the crisis, and trust politicians and their keepers to use such as “Carbon Credits” schemes to permit Corporations, due the enormity of their infection by greed, to carry on as usual, dooms us . . . all of us.
If we dare NOT confront this:
We must inform our children that we lack wisdom, courage and discipline sufficient to do what we must in order to try to save the planet upon which they and their children must rely in order to “Live”.
To this end I now devote the majority of my efforts and time to, hopefully, have those children, worldwide, confront that which paints their parents as greed driven idiots.
Hum Low The Bells Of Kyoto
Hum Low The Bells Of Kyoto
Bang low your dirge to the sea.
Your sound so despond will not travel long
Your tune was not meant to be.
Drum Low The Bells Of Kyoto
Speak soft of our crimes of the past
And sing loud the cry that truth had to die
In order that profits would last.
Cry Low The Bells Of Kyoto
Sing soft the lies of our greed
And peal plaintive song of needs all gone wrong
And air unfit to breathe.
Hum soft all the bells! To an empty world tell!
Of Kyoto's smiles and deceit
Hum soft all the bells! To an empty world tell!
The greed of lies on spreadsheets.
Copyright December 8, 1997 Daniel J. Lavigne
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"The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist.
McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the U.S. Air Force F-15. And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley's technologies to flourish is called the U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps.": - Thomas Friedman
"Every 10 years or so, the US needs to pick up some small, crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business.": - Michael Ledeen
All across the world, in every kind of environment and region known to man, increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate over whether or not climate change is real. Not only is it real, it's here, and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly new global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster. -
Barack Obama, speech, Apr. 3, 2006
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