2006: It's getting hot in here 01 January 06

The only comfort I can draw is that in the year that has passed since the screrening of the BBC Horizon programme on the subject of global dimming, the whole climate change debate has rocketed up the national consiousness scale.

I had despaired, expecting it all to be dismissed as scare-mongering, but maybe, just maybe, it might take root in time for us to avoid perhaps the very worst of catastrophes. What is already in process is going to be bad enough, but a shared global resource crisis may just bring out some of the best in human nature, as well as some of the worst.

cheers

Colin

I read your article – which I also approve of. In line witht the ‘Independent’s’ thinking I thought.

I then moved to the travel section of the very same Indie (remember this is the paper supposedly concerned about AGW) where various ‘worthies’ (who I used to have respect for) prattled on about just how many holiday’s (plane flights) there were to have this year. It’s just amazing how many people can fit five longhaul overseas holidays (or more) into a ‘busy working year’. How sickening, how consumptive, how just plain nauseatingly ‘I don’t even think about what I’m doing enough to give a sht about what the consequences will be, let alone give a sht’ ish. Nope, let’s just fly, fly, fly. They’re wasters the lot of them I say!*

So, I’d conclude (having also considered the attitudes I see around me) that the struggle to get anything done about AGW is going to get more not less difficult. Not good :(

• well, one did say the right things – but a lot of people do that :(

even if it does mean I have to pay more taxes. I’m pretty sure the terrible flooding in Tamilnadu, India this past fall was enhanced by AGW & we suffered terrible property damage (according to relatives). And then we’ll see what happens to our place near the Gulf of Mexico re hurricanes this year…

The point is, I think people could be forgiving of a government that is at least trying to do something about GW. It’s the U.S. government’s attitude that makes people see red and want to file lawsuits.

Instead of paying off lawsuits, we could be putting money into reducing GW & helping developing nations develop along an energy efficient/alt energy path. We could be joining with other nations & their humanitarian concerns, by signing on to Kyoto (I don’t think it’s too late to do so). Ours is such a pro-death, destroy the world government. Shot first, ask questions later. Smoke ‘em out. Apocalypse now!

to all my friends on this blog site.

I wish for myself and for my friends that we strive to avoid discouraging thoughts and to always give our best effort in our projects and in our efforts to influence others regarding all the issues we care about.

Best Wishes, Dan

I sometimes get negative. Actually more & more people around me seem to know about GW, or at least have an interest in learning about it. Not such a brick wall anymore.

So this should be a very good year of raising people’s awareness. Strike while the iron is hot (& getting hotter).