James Balog has released stunning time-lapse photos and video of the dramatic collapse of Arctic glaciers, including one block the size of 3000 Capitol Buildings in 75 minutes. This is yet more proof that the glaciers are shrinking far faster than predicted by the IPCC only 2 years ago. If only the world’s politicians could move as fast.
Today’s horrifying floods in Manila are exactly the sort of catastrophe that the IPCC and other scientists predicted climate change will bring. Remember how much Al Gore was derided for describing them in his slideshow? Now that even Exxon Mobil is calling for a carbon tax, why don’t we have one?
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When you review the scientific papers out there you find that nothing has done more to "GREEN" the planet over the past few decades than elevated levels of atmospheric CO2 together with moderate sun-driven warming of the planet. If you should doubt this assertion, simply Google "Biological Effects of Carbon Dioxide Enrichment" and "Solar Inertial Motion (SIM) model of global warming". Then review the basic documents and a sampling of the scientific bibliographic references. One has to ask the question, "Why have environmental groups and our government turned this obvious gift of nature on its head and buried us in propaganda designed to convince us of just the opposite reality?" As a consequence, I have stopped all donations to environmental organizations and to their favored political party. I highly encourage you to do the same. All my financial donations stay within 25 miles of my home, where I can keep an eye on their use.
John,
If you have ever worked in a multinational multi-stakeholder consensus process, such as the Intergovernmental panel on Climate change, you would know that oil-producing countries did not agree to a single word in the IPCC Fourth Report unless the scientific evidence for it was overwhelming. The scientific evidence for the current climate crisis was overwhelming when that report was released, and is even more overwhelming now.
Yours truly,
Dianne Saxe
Scary…
Climate change is effecting every country. Is there
anything we can do at our level to control it? While at high school, I signed a campaign to “Go Green, Promote Green” but nothing big ever happened. This is one cause we all would certainly like to get involved into if only we know how?
Nancy,
I am so glad that you also want to get involved. For lots of ideas, check out http://www.climatecrisis.net/ and http://green.cbc.ca/.
best wishes
Dianne Saxe
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