Global Climate Disaster Is Happening Right Now... and Humanity Is Just Pretending It's Not Happening

[xchrom]

http://www.alternet.org/environment/its-eerie-global-climate-disaster-happening-right-now-and-humanity-just-pretending-its


There are no comparisons to be made. This is not like war or plague or a stockmarket crash. We are ill-equipped, historically and psychologically, to understand it, which is one of the reasons why so many refuse to accept that it is happening.

What we are seeing, here and now, is the transformation of the atmospheric physics of this planet. Three weeks before the likely minimum, the melting of Arctic sea ice has already broken the record set in 2007. The daily rate of loss is now 50% higher than it was that year. The daily sense of loss – of the world we loved and knew – cannot be quantified so easily.


The Arctic has been warming roughly twice as quickly as the rest of the northern hemisphere. This is partly because climate breakdown there is self-perpetuating. As the ice melts, for example, exposing the darker sea beneath, heat which would previously have been reflected back into space is absorbed.

This great dissolution, of ice and certainties, is happening so much faster than most climate scientists predicted that, one of them reports, “it feels as if everything I’ve learned has become obsolete.” In its last assessment, published in 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change noted that “in some projections, Arctic late-summer sea ice disappears almost entirely by the latter part of the 21st century.” These were the most extreme forecasts in the panel’s range. Some scientists now forecast that the disappearance of Arctic sea ice in late summer could occur in this decade or the next.

[dipsydoodle]

1. Given that the greatest contributor is the consumption of fossiled fuel reserves

what people can't cope with is the thought of life in its absense. The true solution would be immediate cessation of all uses of oil including its biproducts worldwide.

As the US military couldn't cope without it don't expect whoever is in power to actually do anything positive with regard to this situation.

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. Ironic, isn't it?

The military uses massive of gas and oil to plunder countries so the USA can get more gas and oil to give to the military to use to ..................

[dipsydoodle]

4. ad infinitum

You expressed that well.

[postulater]

2. We can't Pray this problem away.

And there are those who won't stop trying till we've created our own Hell.

Frog, meet pot of warming water.

[chervilant]

6. Oh, but,

it feels so delicious at first...

[AverageJoe90]

5. Now, more than ever, is the time to act.

All I can say is, the longer we wait, the worse things will get......enough time has been wasted as it is.