Climate Change Reality Sinks In

Climate change has now begun the move from the political arena (where it never belonged in the first place) to reality in the public mindset.  The weather patterns we have seen recently are unprecedented, and scientists with the education or background to have an intelligent opinion on the subject now all agree that it is real, but they also agree that it is probably too late to do anything about reversing it...we are in for a rough ride.

In case you were wondering if climate change is real, here is at least one part of the world where it is all too real. The Marshall Islands are now expected sometime this century to vanish from the face of the earth, the first country to be claimed in its entirety by the effects of climate change, in this case rising seas. The UN has formed a committee (of course) to figure out what the response should be to an entire country disappearing due to climate change.

In fact, the first Pacific island has already disappeared back in 2006.

Here is a talk given at TED about the need to prepare locally, everywhere for the effects of a new climate.




What can you do?  Start by calling any idiot politician on the carpet who trots out the old 'jobs' argument to claim that there is nothing we should be doing.  The next time an idiot Republican Senator from Oklahoma gets up in the Senate and waves a list of English PhDs and TV weather "forecasters" as "proof" there is no global warming -- let him know you aren't buying it.  

And finally...use energy intelligently, and support the development of renewable, non-destructive energy sources.  What would you rather look at, a few more windmills or a continual firestorm from unrelenting, day-and-night heat burning down our cities and homes in a hopelessly dry climate?  Of course, food production will probably come to a complete halt long before that point!