How it All ends; Plankton video

[William Djubin]

I guess I travel around the web alot these days. Spreading the joys of Ocean Pollution.
I thought of joining the cephlapods but joined the plankton forum instead.
The site is geared for Ocean Eco-Activists, range from biologists to first time swimmers.

The Admin Davis suggested that I should share this video regarding
"How it Ends", the risk management factors associated with Global Climate Change.

http://www.youtube.com/v/mF_anaVcCXg

I think this video should be shown to students and CEO's the like.

[UrbanFarmboy]

Its funny how the debate to prove global warming is happening has now turned to a debate over whats worse, the harm of action or the harm of inaction. I find it curious how the debate keeps shifting as more and more information about GW comes to light.

It use to be global warming, but that doesnt fly now even though the predictions for the last 20 years have been for rapid increases in world temperatures (global warming).

Now its global climate change, but even that doesn't get the job done as its not scary enough to force people to act.

Now we must refer to this unknown problem as global climactic destabilization in order to make a more dramatic statement.

Why dont we just call it what it is, "The global effort to force massive economic redistribution using fear as a catalyist". Though that may not be catchy enough.

[forfismum]

which came first ? the scare or the micky mouse science that's used to back it up.Imagine if all the effort put in by the chancers at the IPCC were put to good use,such as placing all the weather recording stuff in the right places.

[Bored Wombat]

Originally Posted by William Djubin

The Admin Davis suggested that I should share this video regarding
"How it Ends", the risk management factors associated with Global Climate Change.

http://www.youtube.com/v/mF_anaVcCXg

I think this video should be shown to students and CEO's the like.

This is sound thinking.

You don't need to be certain that it is the greenhouse effect that is warming the world. (Although, it is known that the greenhouse effect does warm the world, and it is known that greenhouse gas concentrations are increasing because of human activity, so you have to be somewhat mentally entrenched to not at least acknowledge the probability). There are high cost, high casualty consequences in the pipe line, and so we need to avoid them with the same intelligence that we buy house insurance, before being sure it will burn down, or take a child to the doctor before being sure that their sickness is life threatening.

There is another problem that the risks are very much understated by the IPCC because of the influence of government delegations on the final reports. And governments don't like worried people, and they don't like spending money to ameliorate a problem that a later administration would have to deal with.

The loss of the northern summer sea ice was a dangerous tipping point that was one of the most looming dangers. The IPCC said that it may be gone by 2080.

Last year saw a drop by 23% more than the previous low. And then they said, Crikey, it might be gone by 2040.

And this year is melting faster than last, with scientist saying that it is about 50-50 that the pole be free of pack ice this summer.

If the second dangerous tipping point, the loss of the Greenland ice sheet collapses at a similar magnitude faster than predictions, then we will see a 7 metre sea level rise in our time, and it could be that action is already too late to stop this.

But we may save the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and the Boreal forest. Of course it will be harder without the northern summer sea ice and the Greenland ice sheet, because the large loss of albedo around the north pole must also be compensated for with further greenhouse gas reductions.