I've lauded the many virtues of the "Financial Times" and its sister publication, "The Economist," on any number of occasions here, and referenced scores of their articles. This series from the FT, for instance, is well worth your time. Here is some more:
In "The Economist" this week is a series on the Sea. Here's a telling quote from the lead article: "Humans could afford to treat the sea as an infinite resource when they were relatively few in number, capable of only rather inefficient exploitation of the vasty deep and without as yet a taste for fossil fuels. A world of 6.7 billion souls, set to become 9 billion by 2050, can no longer do so. The possibility of widespread catastrophe is simply too great."
Included here is The curse of carbon, an article that looks at sea ice melting, ocean acidification and the threat to coral reefs, among other things. (If you want to know more about the ocean and climate change's impact, you couldn't do better than to continue with Betsy Kolbert's article in "The New Yorker" from two years ago, The Darkening Sea. You can also see the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change material on the ocean from its Fourth Assessment Report.)
At the FT today, there's a great overview of the relationship between the incoming Obama administration's views on climate change and the international talks. (From December 2 through 21 here, I covered the Obama team, some of the salient points about Congress, the EU talks and the UN-sponsored talks in Poland.) "As night from day' is the difference that John Kerry identified between the approaches of the Bush and Obama administration.
Let's hope so. As UNSG Ban Ki-moon said in Poland: "Yes, the economic crisis is serious. Yet when it comes to climate change, the stakes are even higher. The climate crisis affects our potential prosperity and our peoples' lives, both now and far into the future."
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Al Gore has really stepped in it this time. He could have spent the rest of his global warming career collecting money by spreading fear over events that were a century or at least half century in the future. Oh, but that wasn't good enough for Big Al. He's now told the biggest global warming whopper of his alarmist career:
AL GORE HAS GUARANTEED THAT THE NORTHERN POLAR ICE CAP WILL BE COMPLETELY GONE IN FIVE YEARS!!!
When I heard this I assumed it was a rumor started by skeptics to make Gore look bad. It wasn't until I viewed the video that I realized what Gore had done. Gore has started a five year credibility countdown timer ticking and it's up to all of us to make sure that he is held accountable and proven to be a fraud when his dire prediction aimed at drumming up support doesn't come close to coming true.
The mainstream media isn't going to let this video see the light of day because they, unlike Al, understand the precarious position in which he has placed himself.
It is therefore up to us to spread the word about Big Al's prediction. He must be exposed for the fear mongering opportunist that he has become.
To view the video, please visit the following site and click on the picture of Big Al holding up five fingers.
http://www.hootervillegazette.com
While visiting this site, you might want to watch a preview of the film “Not Evil, Just wrong” or watch “The Great Global Warming Swindle” which is found in the video section. Happy Viewing!!!
I’m glad to know that Skeptics read this blog. It's too bad, though, that you are so fixated on Al Gore, I must say. As you well know, there are thousands of top policymakers, scientists, business leaders and hundreds of millions of concerned citizens who get it. See, for instance, my blog post from nearly two years ago, If You Don't Like Al Gore, Then
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