Climate Change Needs: Boats and Snow Shoes?

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Friday December 31, 2010 · 9:25 AM PST

2010/12/31 · 09:25

Just what is going on with our wacky weather? Why do the summers seem hotter, the winters seem colder, and the storms, floods, and droughts seem worse each year? Answers are beginning to emerge...

Poll

35 votes Show Results

Do you believe that changes to the composition of Earth's atmosphere constitute a threat to the planet?

35 votes Vote Now!

Do you believe that changes to the composition of Earth's atmosphere constitute a threat to the planet?

No way, it's all a myth, and somebody must be profiting

4 votes

I'm skeptical but open-minded

0 votes

I am beginning to recognize the problem

0 votes

This is a real issue, and threatens our agriculture

3 votes

If we don't respond soon, things will run out of control

6 votes

It's probably already too late to react, and civilization is threatened

18 votes

It's the beginning of the end

4 votes

You Were Born Wealthy, But No One Told You!

RobertConnors

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Sunday September 26, 2010 · 10:59 AM PDT

2010/09/26 · 10:59

NOTE: The following is purely opinion, and is offered only for a bit of wry perspective on our world.

Imagine that you were born fabulously wealthy. As an infant you had no idea that there was a great treasure at your disposal, and relied upon others to provide for your every need. As you grew, you began to hear mentions of the wonderful inheritance that was yours, a thing of fabulous value, and wondered about what it could be. You only knew that one day it would be yours.

RobertConnors

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Monday September 20, 2010 · 4:05 PM PDT

2010/09/20 · 16:05

The almost incomprehensible disaster of the floods, hunger, homelessness and disease of Pakistan present a tableau of tragedy that overwhelms us. The flood of waters have generated a flood of photographs of suffering humans.
Almost like the results of a terrible traffic accident, it is difficult to view, pulling at our heartstrings and other more visceral parts of our makeup. Yet the knowledge that this horror is only the leading edge of suffering on a colossal global scale, resulting from our inaction, makes it even more tragic...

RobertConnors

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Saturday September 11, 2010 · 10:14 AM PDT

2010/09/11 · 10:14

While government representatives sit idly, debating over cocktails whether to do something about global climate change with carbon trading schemes, their own houses are afire. Climate change, left unchecked, will doom every government on the planet, and it will happen much sooner than they presently imagine.

RobertConnors

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Friday September 03, 2010 · 6:44 PM PDT

2010/09/03 · 18:44

The 10,000+ years of the Holocene Epoch have ended abruptly, and a new Epoch is coming to dominate the Earth: that of the Anthropocene.

RobertConnors

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Tuesday August 31, 2010 · 1:26 PM PDT

2010/08/31 · 13:26

The United States has long been proud of a tradition of a free press, and Americans were once the best-informed citizens in the world. Today, the tables have turned, and Americans readily demonstrate ignorance on critical topics. What can make them pay attention to the explosive issues confronting us?

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10 votes Show Results

Will the word of their 'Role Models' overcome the dis-information of industrial lobbyists?

10 votes Vote Now!

Will the word of their 'Role Models' overcome the dis-information of industrial lobbyists?

Not a chance

2 votes

Maybe, unless Climate Change becomes a Survivors topic

0 votes

It sure couldn't hurt

2 votes

No, the celebrities are too self-centered

3 votes

Anything that can be done has to be done quickly

3 votes

World oceans leading the way through the looking glass?

RobertConnors

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Friday August 27, 2010 · 2:05 PM PDT

2010/08/27 · 14:05

As global temperatures rise, the oceans continue to absorb much of the excess heat, acting as a sort of 'shock-absorber' in modifying the impact of sharp changes in the atmospheric content of both CO2 and the even-more-dangerous methane.

RobertConnors

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Saturday August 21, 2010 · 11:18 AM PDT

2010/08/21 · 11:18

The odds that humans will be completely extinct within 100 years are rapidly rising. The causes are complex, but mostly inter-related. We have started the process, and it will soon become irreversible, but only a relative handful of humanity is able to recognize the threat, and they are too few to effect a change of course. The result is that we are in for a very unpleasant future...

Poll

110 votes Show Results

Do you believe that governments will react in time, and with sufficient action, to avoid tipping the Earth into a severe climate change?

110 votes Vote Now!

Do you believe that governments will react in time, and with sufficient action, to avoid tipping the Earth into a severe climate change?

Yes, absolutely

0 votes

Yes, once the extent of the problem becomes painfully obvious

5 votes

Maybe, if we exert enormous pressure upon them.

6 votes

Possibly, but not likely

16 votes

When the problem is obvious, it will already be too late

39 votes

Not a chance, the machinery of the economy can't be changed in time

19 votes

We are already doomed as a race, and the Earth will be toast

18 votes

Climate change is a myth, and seven billion people can't change the Earth.

7 votes

Can We Avoid Extinction through Science?

RobertConnors

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Sunday August 15, 2010 · 4:12 PM PDT

2010/08/15 · 16:12

Science is clearly showing that the human race is on course to cause its own extinction, along with that of virtually every other species in our entire planetary biosphere. Can science also show us the tools and methods to get out of the box we find ourselves in?

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52 votes Show Results

Can the human race be alerted in time to avoid calamity, or are we all doomed?

52 votes Vote Now!

Can the human race be alerted in time to avoid calamity, or are we all doomed?

Yes, if we work hard to educate people

3 votes

Yes, with pro-active leadership

6 votes

Maybe, if the climate keeps getting worse, people will wake up...

7 votes

It's unlikely, because people are self-centered and oblivious

21 votes

Not a chance, all we want is instant gratification

15 votes

Is NOAA covering up the 'dispersed' oil?

RobertConnors

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Tuesday August 10, 2010 · 12:12 PM PDT

2010/08/10 · 12:12

Frighteningly, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, responsible for lots of environmentally-critical functions of government, was apparently in bed with BP in trying to conceal the terrible damage done, not by their disastrous oil leak, but by the dispersants used to hide the oil!

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Climate Change Needs: Boats and Snow Shoes?

You Were Born Wealthy, But No One Told You!

Horrors of Pakistan Today Will Spread Worldwide

World Governments Highly Vulnerable to Climate Change Collapse

The new 'Anthropocene Epoch' Means the Doom of Most Species on Earth

Can 'Celebrities' Help America Save the Earth?

World oceans leading the way through the looking glass?

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Can We Avoid Extinction through Science?

Is NOAA covering up the 'dispersed' oil?