harbingers of the apocalypse
Looks like no matter what people do, we’re all doomed.
Depressing new research out today that suggests the surprising rate of temperature change in Europe is due to cleaner skies. Without all that lovely pollution hanging about, more of the sun’s radiation can penetrate the atmosphere. And that leads to warming temperatures. So, the cleaner the sky gets, the faster global warming will go. Cheery. So our choices are asthma or catastrophic climate change.
I’m moving back into the tree. I’ll be dirty, naked and ignorant, but by god, I won’t be making anything worse. Until they prove that being dirty and naked also accelerates global warming. Stupid inconvenient science.
July 9th, 2008 by graeme |
Whooee! With stuff like the albedo effect from the melting North Pole and the release of methane from thawed “perma”frost, we’re probably beyond the tipping point. Governments are still arguing over whether or not there’s even a problem but that problem’s already morphing into another problem.
Like yer sayin’, the best we can do is adapt and try to do no harm. I figger I’ll be able to stay clothed and clean without much impact or hardship. Eating might be a different story. Us small town and rural folks got a better chance of growin’ food and raisin’ rabbits and chickens than our city mouse cousins.
JB