tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post311571904719060029..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: They Call It "The Point of No Return" StudyThe Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-51386056499599350362013-01-22T10:14:06.293-08:002013-01-22T10:14:06.293-08:00Hey Owen. Can you imagine two people having this ...Hey Owen. Can you imagine two people having this discussion ten years ago? We'd be considered lunatics, nutters. Yet this is now entering the mainstream in organizations like Chatham House, the Royal Society, NASA, NOAA, NCAR and so many other blue-ribbon institutions. Yet somehow it bypassed our political institutions, those which we empower with all the resources needed to respond to these threats.<br /><br />I haven't been posting much lately. I have been writing as much as ever but most of the stuff I don't post, leaving it in draft, because it's just too dismal.<br /><br />The best science today gives us until 2020 (some like Hansen say 2015) for global emissions to peak and then begin very sharp reductions. Just to cap emissions takes years of planning, investing and legislating. It requires an unprecedented degree of international coordination. Yet, as the report shows, all the big emissions players - China, the U.S., Australia, Canada and a few others - are going full bore in the opposite direction.<br /><br />Just a couple of days ago Environment Canada announced that frequent extreme weather events were the new normal for our own country. And we're still just nudging past the top of this climate roller-coaster. More to the point, Canada is actually much better off than so many other parts of this world.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-54563784500339287992013-01-22T09:12:21.686-08:002013-01-22T09:12:21.686-08:00As Michael Sandel says, Mound, we have stopped bei...As Michael Sandel says, Mound, we have stopped being a market economy and we have become a market society.<br /><br />If that is our choice, we have chosen extinction.Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.com