"However you slice it, the scientific news has not been good on the pace of greenhouse gas emissions and climate change. The weekend saw a pair of new studies that confirmed the fact that—far from curbing greenhouse gas emissions—we're warming the atmosphere faster than ever, even as the slow-moving U.N. climate talks underway now at Durban underscores how difficult the political challenge of cutting carbon emissions is proving to be."
It's a horse race: will Nature do us in before we do ourselves in more directly? Will we have time to colonize Mars?
It's a horse race: will Nature do us in before we do ourselves in more directly? Will we have time to colonize Mars?
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You are so right. It's plain as day that the human race, some of whose members have recognized the problems caused by humans' delivery of CO2 and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, must respond to the danger with a level of cooperation without parallel in all of human history and prehistory. That's not going to happen. Homo sapiens, not so sapient after all, has fouled its habitat and cannot possibly survive as anything like its success of the present day. The weather that is coming is not going to be just colder, hotter, wetter and windier than before, but extreme and violent beyond mankind's ability to cope. Europe is going to be like Siberia when it loses the Gulfstream. Midwestern tornadoes will be as common as rain. Oregon will lose its balmy weather. While the seas rise everywhere. And it won't all happen in some remote future; our children will get to taste it and our grandchildren will have to take it in the teeth. As far as our species goes (not very much farther) these are definitely the good old days.
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