Title: Mcgowanjm Wire 2012 Source:
[None] URL Source:[None] Published:Feb 26, 2012 Author:Various Post Date:2012-02-26 09:15:13 by A K A Stone Keywords:None Views:1485101 Comments:2390
"It looks as if an over-confident US government is determined to have a three-front war: Syria, Lebanon, and Iran in the Middle East, China in the Far East, and Russia in Europe. This would appear to be an ambitious agenda for a government whose military was unable to occupy Iraq after nine years or to defeat the lightly-armed Taliban after eleven years, and whose economy and those of its NATO puppets are in trouble and decline with corresponding rising internal unrest and loss of confidence in political leadership."
mcgowanjm posted on 2012-07-18 9:36:55 ET Reply Trace Private Reply Edit #540. To: All (#539)
Our Climate is now baked in.
We stop everything and we won't notice a difference until 2035.
" ... One of the most salient—but also, unfortunately, most counterintuitive—aspects of global warming is that it operates on what amounts to a time delay. Behind this summer’s heat are greenhouse gases emitted decades ago. Before many effects of today’s emissions are felt, it will be time for the Summer Olympics of 2048. (Scientists refer to this as the “commitment to warming.”)
What’s at stake is where things go from there.
[My note: if we could radically reverse our CO2 emissions today, which we can't, we would not be affecting the climate until the 2040s because of the built-in delay i.e. the commitment to warming.]"
The January-June period was the warmest first half of any year on record for the contiguous United States, reports NOAA in its June 2012 overview. The national temperature of 52.9°F was 4.5°F (2.5°C) above average.
Welcome to your New World....the Anthropocene....for a little while.
Hoping for an Ice Age now.....;}
"Humans regard preserving the environment as a luxury they can not afford, especially when times are tough. As I have pointed out on numerous occasions, such a stance is indeed insane."
