Heresy Snowboarding

Thanks for checking back, we really appreciate it.James Lovelock has a new book out. He doesn’t sound too hopeful.
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Ok so people are really bloody (I SO wanted to use the EFF word but my mum reads this) dumb: world is cooling.
HAHAHAHAHAH. No, it’s not (you douche).
Still not convinced?.
What about now? – (I REALLY could do this all day! Wheeeee, this is fun!).
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Anti global warming or climate change proponents (some call them crackpots…I suppose some like Andrew Bolt are) really make it easy these days. I totally concede that skepticism in science is needed, but:
1. We only have one Earth – the risks in listening to denialists are way, WAY too high
2. There is overwhelming evidence to refute denialist claims.

The Australian BOM analyses the recent SE Aust heatwave

This Earth and inhabitants need saving. I’m going to do my best to help save it, and if you’re not with me, get the f#ck out my way, or I will bulldoze you away. This is not the time for niceties, or diplomacy.

I will not remit. I will not cease. I will hunt down those who seek to deny, delay, obfuscate, the saving of the Planet I love, and I will tear you apart.

I will die on my feet rather than live on my knees. My conscience and all the beings yet to walk this Earth and behold its beauty demand this of me, of us.

Tim

“When we look back, 2008 will be a momentous year in human history. Our children and grandchildren will ask us, ‘What was it like? What were you doing when it started to fall apart? What did you think? What did you do?’ Often in the middle of something momentous, we can’t see its significance. But for me there is no doubt: 2008 will be the marker — the year when ‘The Great Disruption’ began.”

It’s a great point. What will you be able to say when your grandkids ask “what did you do to help?”.

I sure as hell will be saying: “Everything I could.”

From the very excellent 2 year study International Polar Year we have this report on Arctic sea ice melt.
Why does this matter? More heat = less ice = more heat….you get the drift. Our planet is warming up. MY SNOW SEASONS ARE UNDER THREAT, and this does not make me happy, dammit.
They summarised:
Our main conclusions [...]

Hmmm, nope, no global warming to see here.
Oh, wait.
NASA shows us how warm it is.

The image below is frightening for the fact it shows the temps over Siberia and the North Pole to be warming way more than anywhere else. That means more ice and permafrost melt = more warming.

From the NYT and WSJ:
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Johnny Rook from the Climaticide Chronicles is dying…read about his moving last (?) post.