doom v gloom
August 8th 2008 01:16
Can doom face off against gloom, well I guess it can if you are looking at things n degrees of, and folks that is what it will come down to.
Here is an excellent link to a very informative story CLICK HERE
I also understand the doom is very gloomy so here is a link to some amusing comics to ease your way into the weekend, yes I know CLimate Change isn't a joke but sometimes you just gotta laugh. Your text goes here
Happy Friday
Here is an excellent link to a very informative story CLICK HERE
I also understand the doom is very gloomy so here is a link to some amusing comics to ease your way into the weekend, yes I know CLimate Change isn't a joke but sometimes you just gotta laugh. Your text goes here
Unfortunately, Professor Bob Watson is not speaking out of turn in telling the world to prepare for four degrees of global warming. "Mitigate for two degrees; adapt for four" has long been the catchphrase among climate negotiators and campaigners. Translated, that means: try to reduce emissions to stay below two degrees of warming, but also prepare for the worst.
And Bob Watson should know – he is the former chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), but was kicked out at the behest of the Bush administration for being too vocal about the threat presented by global warming. (Any sceptic reading who thinks that the IPCC is a conspiracy of environmentalists take note: it is a creature of government as well as of science.) He has long made clear his own personal passion and commitment to tackling the issue – often without mincing his words. He is also someone with a very wide-ranging perspective: after leaving the IPCC, Watson chaired the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, a landmark UN study published in 2005 looking at the totality of human impact on the planet's natural systems. (The news wasn't good.)
The problem with the "mitigate for two degrees; adapt for four" strategy is that it is doomed to fail. Yes, we should certainly prepare for the worst as far as possible – with flood defences, drought-resistant crops and strategies to ameliorate the loss of wildlife, at the very least – but a look at the likely impact of a four-degrees temperature rise suggests that such a dramatic change would probably stretch society's capacity for adaptation to the limit, not to mention having a disastrous effect on the natural ecosystems that support humanity as a whole.
And Bob Watson should know – he is the former chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), but was kicked out at the behest of the Bush administration for being too vocal about the threat presented by global warming. (Any sceptic reading who thinks that the IPCC is a conspiracy of environmentalists take note: it is a creature of government as well as of science.) He has long made clear his own personal passion and commitment to tackling the issue – often without mincing his words. He is also someone with a very wide-ranging perspective: after leaving the IPCC, Watson chaired the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, a landmark UN study published in 2005 looking at the totality of human impact on the planet's natural systems. (The news wasn't good.)
The problem with the "mitigate for two degrees; adapt for four" strategy is that it is doomed to fail. Yes, we should certainly prepare for the worst as far as possible – with flood defences, drought-resistant crops and strategies to ameliorate the loss of wildlife, at the very least – but a look at the likely impact of a four-degrees temperature rise suggests that such a dramatic change would probably stretch society's capacity for adaptation to the limit, not to mention having a disastrous effect on the natural ecosystems that support humanity as a whole.
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THAT CARTOON IS PRICELESS!!!
But since you raise philosphical debate early this morning ... then perhaps the right place to place it is here?
Your title raises many viewpoints ... all of them personal to the reader.
Some would say that because you believe that disaster and doom is the final outcome, you are either (a) propelled to focus on the impermanence of life to ease your transition over the threshold of death, or (b) avoid thinking about it?
(a) is easy if you are a Buddhist or believe in karma and rebirth;
(b) is easy if you are delusional or an alcoholic - or a delusional alcoholic?
The point is that (a) generates mindfullnes (like current govt) which will probably focus on the four degrees - causing massive change to the tune of four degrees from clear responsibility - which means the ability to respond; whilst (b) will settle for two degrees of small effort, probably call it ecological - understand it all - then pass it on to the scientists, dispute everything they say - and wait for the doom with the resignation of gloomy non-action.
*giggling at that cartoon again* ..another problem here is that clearly, once you know, you cannot not know... becuase you would be deluding yourself, No? ...which brings up another problem. Clairvoyance and the ability to predict the future with certainty... either way, you are left to deal with a possible truth and reconciliation to your maker in the eventuality of an early demise, ending up in the same place...
However, another facet to all this gloom and doom is perhaps that this reality of ours only exists as long as we think it so (en masse). when you consider the original experiment, perhaps our consciousness as a race/species is also ready to shift to a higher vibration (realising that war, and oils affluence and money are a maligned system of existence). To change, the stuff-of-matter will also need shift to a new phase - perhaps through the 2012 alignment?
I agree with you, no loss when you think that the soul lives on regardless... perhaps to reincarnate to a higher earth vibration (classroom, Nirvana, heaven, reality) than the current one, as a result of hard lessons learnt?
I hope so.
Enjoy indeed!
Lilla ...
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