Feeling The Heat
The climate is crashing, and global warming is to blame. Why the crisis will hit so soon—and what we can do about it.
No one can say exactly what it looks like when a planet takes ill, but it probably looks a lot like Earth. Never mind what you've heard about global warming as a slow-motion emergency that would take decades to play out. Suddenly and unexpectedly, the crisis is upon us.
It certainly looked that way last week as the atmospheric bomb that was Cyclone Larry—a Category 5 storm with wind bursts that reached 180 m.p.h.—exploded through northeastern Australia. It certainly looked that way last year as curtains of fire and dust turned the skies of Indonesia orange, thanks to drought-fueled blazes sweeping the island nation. It certainly looks that way as sections of ice the size of small states calve from the disintegrating Arctic and Antarctic. And it certainly looks that way as the sodden wreckage...
No problem really. Fuck the Kyoto Protocol. Bush in his astounding arrogance sees no reason to limit greenhouse gases as life on earth is killed.
2 Comments:
Agree completely. Sometimes feel like Armageddon will soon be upon us and world leaders will still be fighting over % emission cuts!!!
I hate to face it as much as anyone, but the science is sound.
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