A dire warning about how bad climate change really is becoming. Most people would have thought that the North Pole becoming ice free in their lifetime wasn't possible and now here we are just a couple years later and it could actually happen. Scary really that it has gotten this bad and still no major changes from the top green house gas emitters. Here is a short interview with Tony Blair discussing climate change...
Back when I first started this site people said that the Arctic Ice melting was impossible. Even the "bold" predictions that it would be gone by 2050 were dismissed by the skeptics of Global Warming. Here we are only two years later, and we are arguing about who has the rights to the shipping passages that have opened up for the first time in modern history. Please wake up world before it's too late, listen to the scientists instead of the oil and coal companies and the politicians that they control. We are at a tipping point now more than ever and we still continue on, business as usual. The time for a change is now...
Here is a bit of the report that was released...
Scientists on the project say that much of the ice is so thin that it melts easily, and the Arctic may be ice-free in summer within five to 10 years.
"We had a bit more ice in the winter, although we were still way below the long-term average," said Julienne Stroeve from NSIDC in Boulder, Colorado.
"So we had a partial recovery; but the real issue is that most of the pack ice has become really thin, and if we have a regular summer now, it can just melt away," she told BBC News.
In March, Nasa reported that the area covered by sea ice was slightly larger than in 2007, but much of it consisted of thin floes that had formed during the previous winter. These are much less robust than thicker, less saline floes that have already survived for several years.But from a climate point of view, the melt could bring global impacts accelerating the rate of warming and of sea level rise.
"This is a positive feedback process," commented Dr Ian Willis, from the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge.
"Sea ice has a higher albedo (reflectivity) than ocean water; so as the ice melts, the water absorbs more of the Sun's energy and warms up more, and that in turn warms the atmosphere more - including the atmosphere over the Greenland ice sheet."
Greenland is already losing ice to the oceans, contributing to the gradual rise in sea levels. The ice cap holds enough water to lift sea levels globally by about 7m (22ft) if it all melted.
You can read the entire article here!What are you going to do to help?
Just when I thought George W. Bush couldn't sink any lower this video comes out. From the Daily Show here is a clip of the president talking about $4 a gallon gasoline. Incidentally, the national average for gasoline just hit $4.00 and we haven't even had any hurricanes yet... I said it before and I will say it again, Bush is a damn fool!
I have been saying this for a while now, but it is not often that you can actually find someone that agrees with me. All the talk coming out of the present administration is that we can't sign the Kyoto Protocol, can't reduce emissions, can't help the environment because it would hurt the economy. The joke is on them because now the economy is being crippled by high gas prices... Ah leave it to Bush, what an amazingly intelligent president we have : )
Van Jones, founder of Green for All knows what he is talking about... have a listen!
As soon as I heard this song by Steve Earle I was instantly hooked. You don't really hear it on the radio, but I have heard it a few times on Pandora. I ran across this video on Youtube, it has the song and the lyrics. Have a listen, it is called Rich Man's War...
What do you think about this song?
Typical George W. Bush... Dragging his feet on climate change! I heard someone in the store today call him a devil... I myself am beginning to wonder! I can't wait for all those new nuclear power plants he talks about in the speech below, that way when we have a nice earthquake like the one in China the other day we can all become X-men mutants... It will be a great world! O wait or maybe we could use all that nuclear waste from all those new power plants and give it to Nevada to hold... after all if it's underground it is no problem right? All that clean coal too... I just can't wait! What a damn ignorant fool...
On a side note polar bears were put on the protected species list today... a step in the right direction, but what is this really going to accomplish. I have talked about climate change over the past couple years on this site, and it seems as if here in The United States nothing has really done nothing. The consequences are everywhere though, new studies come out all the time about how much ice is melting in Greenland, the Arctic and virtually ever other glacier in the world. Cyclones and tornadoes are ravaging parts of the world, but that's no real problem right? Let's all talk about the economy and how our poor house is going down in value... Get your head out of your ass!
Phew, glad I got that out... now let's take a look at the past 100 post here at Growing Growing Gone...
Some Words From Dr. Richard Alley
U.S. Dragging It's Feet On Climate Change
Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda
Do They Really Think We Are That Stupid?
Finally A Pill Casinos And Drug Companies Can Agree Upon
Is God Going To Save Us From Climate Change?
The Bush Administration Suppressing Science... Again!
Inventor Of Water Powered Car Murdered?
A Nationwide Recycling Program
Side Effect Include
I could go on and on, but those are just some of the highlights from the past year. Thoughts are welcome...
Really not a tough question considering what the moron in office has done over the past 8 years... we need change and we need it 4 years ago! So, obviously I would vote Democratic whether it is Hilary or Obama I really don't care, because there is no way that I would consider McCain a fit candidate.
That being said if it is blowout, like I expect it to be and the Democrats are killing the Republicans in the polls this is who I am going to write in for president... Senator Bernie Sanders from Vermont who is a Independent... that right an elected official that is not a Democrat or Republican! Who knew such a thing could even exist a politician that is not just a puppet show for special interests... crazy : )
I was beginning to think I was the only one that thought like this...
Exactly...
