Stop saving energy, it's too late! We crossed the line mid 2005!

[Subway]

http://www.desmogblog.com/growth-has...new-study-says

Growth has already pushed Earth past tipping point, new study says

The final synthesis report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change will show that growing economies herald growing greenhouse gas emissions and the result has been a growing threat of global warming, says scientist and Australian of the Year conservationist Tim Flannery.

''We thought we'd be at that threshold within about a decade,'' Flannery told ABC. ''We thought we had that much time, but the new data indicates that in about mid-2005, we crossed that threshold.''

Flannery’s comments came just days after Canada and the U.S. both advocated a voluntary approach to limit greenhouse gases instead of strict international agreements to curb emissions. Neither President Bush nor Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper wants to cap emissions because they fear it would stifle economic growth.

They are right, of course, but that’s exactly what must happen.

As Flannery has observed: ''We've had growing economies everywhere. We're still basing that economic activity on fossil fuels. You know, the metabolism of that economy is now on a collision course, clearly."

The IPCC's Synthesis Report (also known as the Fourth Assessment Report) will be released on November 7, 2007. The Report brings together the core information of the previous three volumes released earlier this year, to create "the most policy-relevant scientific document on climate change for the years to come."

Well, lets hope they have a rounding error in there, a really big one.

Fredi

[gerbick]

Great... now let the anarchy begin.

[ihoss.com]

um, tipping point and threshold of what? Ice age?

[Subway]

Venus 2.0

Fredi

[FlashLackey]

Great news. So, we don't have to hear about this any more, right? It's too late to change things, so no reason to bother.

[silverx2]

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good think tom cruise is already building a bunker underground!

[gerbick]

All the better for him to be drowned when the sea waters raise up some 50 feet.

I choose death by snoo-snoo.

[Eleniatari]

Umm....yeah.... -caugh- wrong order.

[hurricaneone]

I'm in negotiations to buy the top of Mt. Everest, as this will inevitably be the new Tahiti.

And remember, kids.

[Subway]

Even if I come with my Swiss friends and a Jaccuzi?

http://www.jaccuzzi.ch/index_e.html



Fredi

[nordberg]

yeah, don't believe the hype. everyone has to do what they can, because every action, no matter how small, can make a difference. just ask the starfish...

Sometimes people tell me that they are very concerned about the environment but that they don’t feel their efforts can make the slightest difference. I like to tell a mushy story my friend told me about a little girl on the beach.

Thousands of starfish have been washed up by a rip tide. They are dying in the sun. One by one, the little girl picks them up, carries them to the water and drops them in.

A man comes along and says, “What’s the point? There are so many you can’t even make a difference”

The girl says, “Tell that to the one I just put back in the water."

[flashpipe1]

The girl says, “Tell that to the one I just put back in the water."

Yeah, except the water is so polluted and filled with plastic debris that the starfish gets caught in and dies...

But, I'll keep trying to do my little part and just shake my head in disgust as the government says that "Things need to change...by 2020." Not sure why they can't change RIGHT NOW!

[phaty]

so the man turns to the star fish and stamps on him to death and smirks "when it rains it pores.......now little girl, why are you messing about with star fishes"

[Subway]

Not sure why they can't change RIGHT NOW!

Really? I'm pretty sure why.

Fredi

[ihoss.com]

wow, subway, who carries that kind of equipment to the top of a mountain? You crazy swiss people!

[Subway]

Compared to what himalayan sherpas have to transport for all those lazy tourist climbers that want to reach the Mount Everest ... well, compared to that it's nothing.

Fredi