http://irregulartimes.com/index.php/archives/2009/11/07/arctic-sea-ice-reaches-record-low-for-november-6-2009/ When old landmarks crumble, established roads no longer lead the way. New paths open to those with an irregular eye. Our news is unfit for print. Sat, 26 May 2012 21:26:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://irregulartimes.com/index.php/archives/2009/11/07/arctic-sea-ice-reaches-record-low-for-november-6-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-575637 Dorothy Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:59:02 +0000 http://irregulartimes.com/?p=15397#comment-575637 Tom, Australian Professor Clive Hamilton would agree with you. See his lecture to the Royal Society of the Arts, October 21: "Is It Too Late to Prevent Catastrophic Climate Change?" http://www.clivehamilton.net.au/cms/media/documents/articles/rsa_lecture.pdf. I'm hoping you're both wrong and that if we cut emissions to zero in the next few years and the geo-engineer the excess 300+ billions of megatons of CO2 out of the atmosphere, we can save the life of our planet. We can't afford to give up, even in the face of the really terrible news as we learn more about the threat of runaway global warming. Tom, Australian Professor Clive Hamilton would agree with you. See his lecture to the Royal Society of the Arts, October 21: “Is It Too Late to Prevent Catastrophic Climate Change?” http://www.clivehamilton.net.au/cms/media/documents/articles/rsa_lecture.pdf.
I’m hoping you’re both wrong and that if we cut emissions to zero in the next few years and the geo-engineer the excess 300+ billions of megatons of CO2 out of the atmosphere, we can save the life of our planet.
We can’t afford to give up, even in the face of the really terrible news as we learn more about the threat of runaway global warming.

]]> http://irregulartimes.com/index.php/archives/2009/11/07/arctic-sea-ice-reaches-record-low-for-november-6-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-575608 Tom Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:03:33 +0000 http://irregulartimes.com/?p=15397#comment-575608 Perhaps as little as 5 years hence we'll be lookin' at old photos of ice up there with longing. By now, even if the entire world could reverse course and actually take carbon OUT of the atmosphere at some small rate each year, it is too late to undo the course of the earth's climate in trying to balance out all the damage we've done. We may be in for some difficult times as the chaotic systems lurch one way then another (too hot too fast/too dry then far too wet interspersed with a surprise frost just after the crops are coming along . . .for example) and we find it almost impossible to grow the food we need to sustain even LOCAL communities, let alone the world. Perhaps as little as 5 years hence we’ll be lookin’ at old photos of ice up there with longing. By now, even if the entire world could reverse course and actually take carbon OUT of the atmosphere at some small rate each year, it is too late to undo the course of the earth’s climate in trying to balance out all the damage we’ve done. We may be in for some difficult times as the chaotic systems lurch one way then another (too hot too fast/too dry then far too wet interspersed with a surprise frost just after the crops are coming along . . .for example) and we find it almost impossible to grow the food we need to sustain even LOCAL communities, let alone the world.

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