From Margaret Swedish at the ides of March: A thought for the day — it is abundantly clear that we can no longer sustain our lifestyles. Back in 1997, a deputy director at the World Bank, Sven Burmeister of Sweden, put it this way: the earth has the carrying capacity to support the consumption levels [...]
For another good story on what we’re dealing with on climate change, see Consensus grows on climate change, a March 1 story from BBC News. The BBC news web site has a lot of great background on global warming, as you will see when you click on this article. Excerpt: œThe doubling of CO2 from [...]
Yet another study heralds the warning: global warming is real and it could spell disaster for human societies. This morning, it was the Washington Post once again, reporting the news: Antarctic Ice Sheet is Melting Rapidly. It is important to appreciate what a 20-ft. rise in ocean levels means for coastal communities and low-lying countries. [...]
What will it take to get governments to spring into action appropriate to the real threat of global warming (which some prefer to call œclimate change, but is about warming, nonetheless).? In yet another instance of the bad news in front of us, London’s The Guardian reports that scientists doing research for the Intergovernmental [...]