I just dont understand why we humans are so paralyzed about climate change, the analog of the slowly boiling water and the frog (which is untrue) keeps popping into my head. Because this is so slow acting we keep thinking it will be solved down the road, but what people seem to miss is the urgency in which our time to do anything is fading. We have icecaps melting, warming the oceans, we have permafrost warming and releasing tons of CO2 and now evidence with methane starting to join the warming trend, which is outright SCARY. The Russian sink holes are a Dragons breath, methane expulsions which are being caused by warming. Methane is the sign a lot of climatologists have been fearing, not just worried, outright terrified. If we are starting to see more and more methane being released we could be looking at a runaway climate and mass extinctions. The frozen CO2 in the oceans, the frozen methane in siberia, arctic seas, if this stuff starts to go, we will see a hot planet that may wipe out most of the life on earth. I always want to be an optimist about the future, but seeing how so many are even unwilling to admit this is happening gives me great pause, and makes me wonder if there is anything we can do other than destroy this only home we have. Carl Sagan said it best in pale blue dot: The Earth is the only world known, so far, to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment, the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home weve ever known. —Carl Sagan news.au/technology/environment/are-siberias-methane-blowholes-the-first-warning-sign-of-unstoppable-climate-change/story-fnjwvztl-1227006746397
Posted on: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 12:18:01 +0000
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