Bush administration says global warming needs more commitment

Bush administration says global warming needs more commitment

The current life style is not sustainable, something is wrong somewhere. If we are for equality, we must not abuse non-renewable resources. For a start, don’t encrouge materialism, not an easy task.

What we have already done

Here is what Climate Code Red says:

— Human emissions have so far produced a global average temperature increase of 0.8 degree C.

— There is another 0.6 degree C. to come due to “thermal inertia”, or lags in the system, taking the total long-term global warming induced by human emissions so far to 1.4 degree C.

— If human total emissions continue as they are to 2030 (and don’t increase 60% as projected) this would likely add more than 0.4 degrees C. to the system in the next two decades, taking the long-term effect by 2030 to at least 1.7 degrees C. (A 0.3 degree C. increase is predicted for the period 2004-2014 alone by Smith, Cusack et al, 2007).

— Then add the 0.3 degree C. albedo flip effect from the now imminent loss of the Arctic sea ice, and the rise in the system by 2030 is at least 2 degree. C, assuming very optimistically that emissions don’t increase at all above their present annual rate! When we consider the potential permafrost releases and the effect of carbon sinks losing capacity, we are on the road to a hellish future, not for what we will do, but WHAT WE HAVE ALREADY DONE.

“Few seem to realise that the present IPCC models predict almost unanimously that by 2040 the average summer in Europe will be as hot as the summer of 2003 when over 30,000 died from heat. By then we may cool ourselves with air conditioning and learn to live in a climate no worse than that of Baghdad now. But without extensive irrigation the plants will die and both farming and natural ecosystems will be replaced by scrub and desert. What will there be to eat? The same dire changes will affect the rest of the world and I can envisage Americans migrating into Canada and the Chinese into Siberia but there may be little food for any of them." — Dr James Lovelock’s lecture to the Royal Society, 29 Oct. '07

“The alternative (to geoengineering) is the acceptance of a massive natural cull of humanity and a return to an Earth that freely regulates itself but in the hot state." — Dr James Lovelock, August 2008

How about a more free world, everyone is treated equal

Solution probably lies in the use of technology plus a redistribution of natural wealth, like land. It is absurb for individual to own thousand of acres of land that forced the landlord to rely on chemical and fuel for harvest and market. It is better for land to be work by more people in smaller plots relying on organic or reduce use of pesticide, herbicite, growth hormone. And not over rely on fuel for harvest and transportation. Just move poeple to the place where they have work and food.

Free Markets

I agree but them a free market will need to be called a Restricted Market if rules are applied. Democracy is based on the free market! Maybe democracy cannot be sustained.

(R) 2010 DAN QUAYLE Coalition : 2011 DAN QUAYLE administration in White House will propose a space shuttle mission to reach that large, thick heat-trapping gases (CO2) cloud where our satellite showed is believed to be warming Earth’s atmosphere; 2011 DAN QUAYLE administration will probe into how we use our space shuttle to collect a sample of this heat-trapping gases cloud’s component, bring back to earth, then find a chemical processing way to dissolve this heat-trapping gases cloud, seemed like more practical than empty talks.

Bush has committed 2 billion dollars over three years to a new clean technology fund to be managed by the World Bank.

too little, too late