grrrrrr

[chelidon]

U.S. isolated on climate change

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Melting glaciers, the shrinking ice cap, warming oceans and rising sea levels -- all are urgent concerns around the world, and cause for frustration among many nations that believe the United States has set a glacial pace toward reversing the onset of global warming.
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No surprises here, sad to say. Future history books will mark this moment in time as a tremendous lost opportunity for the United States to show some real leadership in lessening the severity of the ecological damage to come, and its hugely negative impact on people around the world. I strongly suspect that Bush's name will become a common curse word, at least for those decreasing number around the world for whom it is not already so.

Comments

[alobar.livejournal.com]

> the United States has set a glacial pace toward reversing

Seems to me the US is is working against efforts to stop global warming. The "end-times" apocalyptic beliefs of the neocons require the earth to be destroyed for the second coming to appear.

[skygypsy.livejournal.com]

*sigh*
:(
i still will never understand how people got so disconnected from the Earth... *sigh*

[chelidon.livejournal.com]

I know we can do better, and we will...but the lost opportunities are very sad...the longer we go on this course, the less option we'll have down the road, is how I see it. But we all do our Work, the best we can with our hands and hearts and heads!

climate happiness

[(Anonymous)]

Came across a quote a few weeks back (can't find it now of course!) from one of the original global-warming proponent scientists. He is now saying something to the effect that we have 10 years to seriously get our act together, or we will cross a tipping point and move into a climactic pattern the earth has not seen for 0.5 MY. (half a million years) And we will probably be stuck in that pattern for a loooong time.

Me? Well, I have started my daily stretching exercises, so I can be sure that I can bend down and grab my ankles when the time comes, just in case!

Though seriously I try not to worry too much. Worry just induces stress reactions that makes your life shorter and more miserable. I think the best we can do is educate, advocate, minimize our own impact, and prepare for things that cannot really be actuaratley predicted. :)

Oh, as a final happy along the lines of "crossing a tipping point". Check this out.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/12/08/glacier.melt.ap/

I remember just 4 or 5 years ago when the climate scientists were saying "if you squint really hard at the data you can see those global warming trends". You don't need to squint anymore. It's getting faster, and more dramatic, every day.

Stephen in NZ

[skygypsy.livejournal.com]

yes true, important to focus on what we can do
:)