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February 10, 2006
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Couldn't post for a few days, but now I'm back. I intend to write about the "cartoon" debacle. But this caught my eye. The world is at a warmest point for the past millenium.
Why is this not an emergency, again?
Posted by zeynep at February 10, 2006 09:30 PM
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Collectively and unconsciously, we look to our corporate media to understand how much attention we need to pay to certain issues. The "message" of the media is that global warming is a "back burner" issue, while the "real" emergencies change more rapidly than we can keep up with, from bird flu to the nuclear program in Iran, to sordid family murders. It is terribly important to the powers that be to distract us from this impending disaster while we might still be able to do something about it-- because meaningful action must radically alter the global industrial power base. Read "Global Warming: Passing the Tipping Point", published 2/11 in the Independent (and posted on Common Dreams), especially the last two paragraphs about aerosols. We need to understand this. It seems that some scientists feel POLLUTION in the atmosphere will deflect the sun's energy sufficiently to ameliorate the effect of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere??! Is it the unstated response of our government, and is that why the Kyoto protocols have been dismissed as unnecessary?
Posted by: mom at February 12, 2006 11:30 AM
Zeynep:
It may be worse than this article says. British climatologists say that we are past the tipping point, that we can no longer prevent the first round of bad effects from global warming:
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article344690.ece
Posted by: at February 12, 2006 05:20 PM