See No Evil
Jul 29th, 2005 at 11:20 pm by Susie
It must be those goddamned trees, spewing all that carbon dioxide:
Satellite data for the month of June show Arctic sea ice has shrunk to a record low, raising concerns about climate change, coastal erosion, and changes to wildlife patterns.
The National Snow and Ice Data Centre in the United States uses remote sensing imagery to survey ice cover at both poles.
The centre says 2002 was a record low year for sea ice cover in the Arctic, since satellite observations began in 1979.
… Now scientists fear this year could be worse. June readings indicate the ice is at its lowest limit ever for that time of year.
… Now some scientists are wondering if the melting of the sea ice has already gone beyond a critical threshold from which it can’t recover.
I keep thinking of the Noah piece by Bill Cosby, “Can you tread water?”
hahahaha, that cosby piece is one of my first comedic memories.
i was just gonna say that climate change, coastal erosion, and changes to wildlife patterns aren’t high on the list of the corporate-friendly aspect of the GOP. Insert Reagan and Bushx2 saying “I don’t want to do anything that hurts business.”
p.s. what’s a cubic?
I was talking with a Canadian artic climate researcher about a month ago. Amid the interesting details about coastal erosion, fertility, extinction, and the humans who inhabit that part of the world, he said that his group thinks artic climate changes are now beyond our control, even if we had intelligent and committed leadership. Reflexively I think, he still argues for management on the basis that we may be able to mitigate the consequences. Tying this into global warming’s projected impact, a failure to even try is inconceivably irresponsible.
Actually, it’s “How looonng… can you tread water?”
That Global Warming and Climate Change has long been a hobby… feels kinda’ icky. From the varied models I’ve studied, from a purely statistical psychohistoric perspective this is the point of no return. We are but fleas agitating the hide of a far greater creature. Humans need now to give greater thought to survival than engaging in the wistful thinking we might somehow mitigate our responsibility for the destruction of this world as she had nurtured us, or ferverently wishing - “and hopin’ and prayin’” - that some benevolent pie-in-the-sky creature will come floatin’ down out of the heavens to rescue all the faithful before it’s too damned late!
Those that survive, will have evolved.