So, here's a question for you:

Why do the people who assert that global warming is not a result of human activity think this is a good thing?

Outside Bush's America, there are wind farms, solar cars, tidal power and other marvels. When will we come out of the cave and look around?

There are LIVES in the balance. Click here. Watch. Listen.

It got up near 70 degrees yesterday and tomorrow there are predictions of snow and sleet followed by another warm week. WHeeee! It's a weather roller-coaster!

The most alarming changes in glacier movement have been spotted in southern Greenland. The Kangerdlugssuaq glacier, stable since 1962, accelerated 210% between 2000 and 2005 to nine miles a year, dumping seven times as much ice into the ocean. The researchers used radar images from four satellites to map nearly the entire surface of Greenland. Crevasses and other features are locked into glaciers, so images taken at different times reveal how fast the glaciers are moving.
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"What surprised us was the magnitude of the changes," said Eric Rignot, lead researcher at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Until 2000 only glaciers below 60 degrees north on Greenland were known to be accelerating. But the latest images showed that by last year glaciers at up to 70 degrees north had also speeded up, suggesting warmer temperatures were creeping north.

from his interview in the The Independent (UK)
posted online, 02.17, 8:00 PM EST

 Climate Change: On the edge by Jim Hansen

"Greenland ice cap breaking up at twice the rate it was five years ago, says scientist Bush tried to gag"

[Y]et, a few weeks ago, when I - a Nasa climate scientist - tried to talk to the media about these issues following a lecture I had given calling for prompt reductions in the emission of greenhouse gases, the Nasa public affairs team - staffed by political appointees from the Bush administration - tried to stop me doing so. I was not happy with that, and I ignored the restrictions. The first line of Nasa's mission is to understand and protect the planet.

link to full piece here

Kudos Mr. Hansen. But it's an outrage that you can only be heard here via the UK/EU media.  Further confirmation we have a prostrate (SCM) state-controlled media.  

Well, "You can't vote for war and disown the results"

This is about as depressing as it gets for news, because the implications are enormous, not only for accelerating global heating, or even bigger storm surges and bigger storms, but for the world's supply of fresh water.  

Again, I believe it's imperative to think of the climate crisis and act on it in two ways: first, what's going to be necessary in the short term to deal with its effects, this year, next year and for the next decade; and second, steps to try to slow it down so the earth as we know it has a chance to survive beyond this century.

It's important to do both. Everyone needs to know that alternate energy isn't going to stop what happens in the next ten years.  But that if we only concentrate on mitigating and protecting what is happening in this decade, we will destroy the future.  That's what sustainable energy etc. is for.

Deal with the ongoing and accelerating Climate Crisis now.  Prevent a farther future of Earth=Venus now.  Two sets of actions that both must be done now.

 

"The end of all intelligent analysis is to clear the way for synthesis." H.G. Wells "It's not dark yet, but it's getting there." Bob Dylan