The Seattle Times has been, from time to time, reporting on different instances and facets of this problem known to many as climate change. This most recent article is pretty startling, but for those who know me this should not be new news. I have been ranting about these potential problems for years now, largely falling on def ears but as more and more coverage is being made by large news sources I hope that the numbers of disbelievers quickly dwindles.
"We know from scientific evidence that climate change is a reality and that climate change will have damaging effects on the economy all over the world," said Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, one of the politicians attending the scientific conference. "Therefore we need an agreement and we need an agreement this year." Actually we needed an agreement about 10 years ago and likely would have seen one if Al Gore had become president, buts that's a whole additional argument.
The long and the short is that human induced changes to the climate are real, have become largely irreversible, and will have far reaching impacts across the globe and no nation will be spared. Some nations will be better off than others, small island nations will be wiped away and we are likely to see many other massive lifestyle impacts occur globally.
Here is a link to the times article.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008835298_apeudenmarkclimatechange.html
Here is a link to another, very similar article with predictions regarding the fate of the rain forests, also know as the lungs of the world.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7940532.stm
In our lifetimes we will see the greatest amount of change anybody could have ever foretold. Not just technological changes but changes in the very landscapes around us, the processes of the world and the climate. These articles are just the tip of the ice berg. There is a much more startling reality underlying all of these predictions. If these changes do indeed take place we will see CO2 levels sky rocket, this will last for a nearly indefinite period of time, unless it triggers an ice age or other major event, in which case we could be on the verge of the next mass extinction.
"We know from scientific evidence that climate change is a reality and that climate change will have damaging effects on the economy all over the world," said Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, one of the politicians attending the scientific conference. "Therefore we need an agreement and we need an agreement this year." Actually we needed an agreement about 10 years ago and likely would have seen one if Al Gore had become president, buts that's a whole additional argument.
The long and the short is that human induced changes to the climate are real, have become largely irreversible, and will have far reaching impacts across the globe and no nation will be spared. Some nations will be better off than others, small island nations will be wiped away and we are likely to see many other massive lifestyle impacts occur globally.
Here is a link to the times article.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008835298_apeudenmarkclimatechange.html
Here is a link to another, very similar article with predictions regarding the fate of the rain forests, also know as the lungs of the world.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7940532.stm
In our lifetimes we will see the greatest amount of change anybody could have ever foretold. Not just technological changes but changes in the very landscapes around us, the processes of the world and the climate. These articles are just the tip of the ice berg. There is a much more startling reality underlying all of these predictions. If these changes do indeed take place we will see CO2 levels sky rocket, this will last for a nearly indefinite period of time, unless it triggers an ice age or other major event, in which case we could be on the verge of the next mass extinction.
The doubters are out in force on the Seattle Times article's comment section.
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