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[johnny9fingers]

 Oh Dear....

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2164776,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=science

That's a bit of an 'oops' moment really.

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[ankh156.livejournal.com]

The worst of our pollution is 'in the pipe'. The victorian 'coal burning era' did an enormous amount of damage. If our current 'carbon fottprints' were reduced to zero, we've still got to pay for all that.

I tend to concentrate on the more self-evidently absurd aspects of our life, such as low cost (effectively 'useless') aviation, filthy diesel motors on ships, industries which refuse to adapt, etc. The news is bad. We've known clearly that it's been coming since the seventies, and we've done nothing. That's the real 'oops'.

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

I agree. Cheap flights are madness. And conditioning folk to expect them as a right is also insane. But 'whatthehell archie' as Mehitabel would say: we shall reap what we have sown.

[towith.livejournal.com]

We've made our bed, we may as well enjoy laying in it. The upside is improved shipping roots and access to natural resources at the north pole, which is of course an issue of contention for some. And I wouldn't worry about the earthquakes, it's a the tsunamis which will get you.

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

The polar shipping routes are interesting and should be opening up properly in the next few years.
Actually, I don't worry too much about me, mine, or even our precious little island: but I sure as hell am going to mourn the loss of Venice.

[towith.livejournal.com]

They wont let a money-maker like Venice go without a fight, I wouldn't mourn just yet.

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

Might be impossible to save. Ah well, we'll find out.

(maybe not my most rational response but I'm not sure how to edit it next so posting as is)

[winterlion.livejournal.com]

This actually fits the "realistic scientific prediction".
unfortunately.

... along with increases in "weird weather" as long as the melt takes - and a few years after. What else though?
It'll be "interesting".


But those that think global warming doesn't exist are finally getting an ear/eye full.

Re: (maybe not my most rational response but I'm not sure how to edit it next so posting as is)

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

We can all have fun saying 'I told you so'.
I'm going to have a lot of fun saying it, actually, until the floodwater covers my head.

Re: (maybe not my most rational response but I'm not sure how to edit it next so posting as is)

[winterlion.livejournal.com]

Yep - that's the one.

My current home's above the high-water mark but I have NO idea what storms are coming the way of my city.

[e4q.livejournal.com]

i am feeling drinking polar ice caps for a year. london water is revolting, ice cap water has got to be better. when do they harness it for us? that's my burning environmental question.

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

I agree. I want something proper to put into my whisky.

[e4q.livejournal.com]

you know what i had once, was peat bog water, in skye. it was brown and it tasted delicious. i always thought it would be a great moneymaking venture to sell it in fancy bottles in london hotels for rich whisky drinkers, since it is the water they use for whisky making. thought i suppose after all the processing the whiff of peat is probably long gone.