THE 'CHOICES' - argued through in great fluidity as above, referenced below:
wonderingmind42 -- June 08, 2007 — Over 7,500,000 total views.
Now there's a book:
"...superbly crafted.... A must read." -Gen. Anthony Zinni, USMC (Ret.)
"This book trumps most of our accounts of the global warming crisis." --author Bill McKibben
"Al Gore should share his Nobel peace prize." -The "New Scientist"
"This is a tremendous book and well worth anyone's time to read.... You're in for a treat—Craven is funny as well as exceptionally clear, and wise." --Kim Stanley Robinson, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of the Mars Trilogy and Science in the Capital
"This is a terrifically thoughtful book.... Cravens book shines an illuminating floodlight on how we think about global warming."
--Ross Gelbspan, author, "The Heat Is On" and "Boiling Point"
On Amazon: http://snurl.com/kjpvp
wonderingmind42 -- June 08, 2007 — Over 7,500,000 total views.
Now there's a book:
"...superbly crafted.... A must read." -Gen. Anthony Zinni, USMC (Ret.)
"This book trumps most of our accounts of the global warming crisis." --author Bill McKibben
"Al Gore should share his Nobel peace prize." -The "New Scientist"
"This is a tremendous book and well worth anyone's time to read.... You're in for a treat—Craven is funny as well as exceptionally clear, and wise." --Kim Stanley Robinson, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of the Mars Trilogy and Science in the Capital
"This is a terrifically thoughtful book.... Cravens book shines an illuminating floodlight on how we think about global warming."
--Ross Gelbspan, author, "The Heat Is On" and "Boiling Point"
On Amazon: http://snurl.com/kjpvp
The Evidence is Clear:
Earth's climate has cycles, and we are sitting on the precipice of changes which require evolutionary adaptation of traditional concepts.
Already, millions of people are having to move through drought or flooding. November 2009 saw Australia's coastal communities having to move, as the sea invaded their homes, and January 2010 bought further reports, as China too, started to count the cost of moving people from low-lying land.
There is no report detailing the total amount of land mass which will be lost to the sea as levels continue to rise. According to “The Earth Observatory”, 23rdJanuary 2009, in their article ‘More Accurate FEMA Flood Maps Could Help Avoid Significant Damages and Losses’, the lack of maps detailing to high-accuracy and high-resolution the land surface data, negates the ability to comprehensively detail the flood risks.
Although it is possible to determine the 20’ increase in sea levels, it is not yet possible to determine the damage storm surges will create. To the date of the publication of this Earth Observatory report, there was only 21% map coverage to meet the quality standards needed as data by FEMA, this after a US$1 billion investment.
The US faces a loss of capital value of $17 billion through annual flooding, with a 30 year capital loss of US$270 billion as detailed by Ryszard B Zeidler, ‘Continental Shorelines: Climate Change & Integrated Coastal Management’, 23rdJune 1998 via www.sciencedirect.com
In the UK, the Environment Agency predicts flood risks to 2.3 million homes and 185,000 businesses in England and Wales, representing land and asset loss in excess of £200 billion.
The levels of Carbon-Dioxide emitted are exasperating the environmental damage, as the high levels of CO2 emissions are accelerating the changes.
These accelerants are fuelled also by ozone-depleting substances (ODS), according to the Environmental Investigations Agency www.eia-international.com - whose undercover investigations have proven an illegal trade in chlorofluorocarbons, CFC’s. (In contravention to the 1987 Montreal Protocol treaty.)
As well as their award-winning investigations into the illegal trading of CFC’s, the EIA has proven that the replacements to CFC’s, being HCFC’s and HFC’s (hydroflourocarbons and hydrochlorofluorocarbons), cause as much devastation to the ozone layer as the original CFC’s.
Although the emissions of all ODS are now covered through the Montreal Protocol treaty, September 2007, the introduced reductions still allow for a growth in emissions from 0.4 billion tonnes in 2002 to 1.2 billion tonnes in 2015.
The accumulative total emissions of all ODS, is guaranteeing the predicted effects of climate change.
Already, millions of people are having to move through drought or flooding. November 2009 saw Australia's coastal communities having to move, as the sea invaded their homes, and January 2010 bought further reports, as China too, started to count the cost of moving people from low-lying land.
- Right now, as a species, the human race is consuming a minimum 1.2 worlds of resources, Reap Report, SEI.
- Right now, 17,000 species are at the point of extinction – IUCN Red List
- By 2050 sea levels could rise over 20’ – Ocean Conservatory, www.oceanconservatory.org
- 20% of mammals, 70% of all plants, in danger – IUCN Red List
- By 2100 global temperatures will be higher than they have for the past 2 million years
- Arctic ice sheets are reducing at a rate far faster than previously predicted –BBC News 24
- Sea levels are rising as a result of the melt of arctic ice - Al Gore, “An inconvenient Truth”
- Ocean temperatures are rising, and entire coral reefs have the potential to be incapable of adapting to over a 2 degree rise in temperature, (with a potential loss of natural sea defences) – http://www.coral.org/node/184
- The weight re-distribution of arctic ice melt across the tectonic plates will result in increased levels of seismic activity – resulting in volcanic flume blanketing Earth from the sun, creating a solar winter which will last at least ten years, resulting in a potential ice age – NASA
- Increased seismic activity, combined with the rise in sea levels, will result in extensive flooding, tsunamis and tidal surges will also become prevalent - “The Age of Stupid”
- Air pressures will change as a result of the proportional changes to land and sea mass – monsoons, typhoons, tornadoes and hurricanes will all increase in activity, number and strength of velocity. We need to adapt – Professor Michael Kelly, Cambridge University, “Can We Adapt The Built Environment In Time”.
- N.B. The Gulf Stream will cease to flow across the Atlantic ocean towards Iceland – Al Gore, “An inconvenient Truth” - Although this fact is questioned by expert findings linked via http://ebtx.com/theory/oceancur.htm
There is no report detailing the total amount of land mass which will be lost to the sea as levels continue to rise. According to “The Earth Observatory”, 23rdJanuary 2009, in their article ‘More Accurate FEMA Flood Maps Could Help Avoid Significant Damages and Losses’, the lack of maps detailing to high-accuracy and high-resolution the land surface data, negates the ability to comprehensively detail the flood risks.
Although it is possible to determine the 20’ increase in sea levels, it is not yet possible to determine the damage storm surges will create. To the date of the publication of this Earth Observatory report, there was only 21% map coverage to meet the quality standards needed as data by FEMA, this after a US$1 billion investment.
The US faces a loss of capital value of $17 billion through annual flooding, with a 30 year capital loss of US$270 billion as detailed by Ryszard B Zeidler, ‘Continental Shorelines: Climate Change & Integrated Coastal Management’, 23rdJune 1998 via www.sciencedirect.com
In the UK, the Environment Agency predicts flood risks to 2.3 million homes and 185,000 businesses in England and Wales, representing land and asset loss in excess of £200 billion.
The levels of Carbon-Dioxide emitted are exasperating the environmental damage, as the high levels of CO2 emissions are accelerating the changes.
These accelerants are fuelled also by ozone-depleting substances (ODS), according to the Environmental Investigations Agency www.eia-international.com - whose undercover investigations have proven an illegal trade in chlorofluorocarbons, CFC’s. (In contravention to the 1987 Montreal Protocol treaty.)
As well as their award-winning investigations into the illegal trading of CFC’s, the EIA has proven that the replacements to CFC’s, being HCFC’s and HFC’s (hydroflourocarbons and hydrochlorofluorocarbons), cause as much devastation to the ozone layer as the original CFC’s.
Although the emissions of all ODS are now covered through the Montreal Protocol treaty, September 2007, the introduced reductions still allow for a growth in emissions from 0.4 billion tonnes in 2002 to 1.2 billion tonnes in 2015.
The accumulative total emissions of all ODS, is guaranteeing the predicted effects of climate change.
