Let me get one thing out of the way.
I feel really sorry for climate deniers. Especially rusty old crackpots like Ian Plimer, or, for that matter, utter crackpots like Bolt. Even as the Good Ship Humanity sinks into the murky depths, methinks he will protest too much.
But I digress.
I am seriously stoked on Obama. Not only is he going to save our snow seasons (indirectly), he is going to save the world. Or, at least actually try. The last two years have seen a marked turnaround in leadership, especially in the US and Australia – 2 countries that could be badly affected by global warming and climate change.
Professor Barry Brook over at has a couple of great posts (and simple and easy to understand) on why a temperature rise of 2-6 deg C will be not-so-good for us all.
News of Switzerland and Italy changing their borders due to melting glaciers. Scientists are shocked over the rate of Siberian permafrost melt.
It’s not often I get angry and despairing. I try and remain optimistic (try). But after reading this article I got angry(er).
Kinda makes me being worried about being able to go snowboarding a little redundant at that point. When people are directly affected and lose their livelihoods and land, skiing and snowboarding kind of seems unimportant all of a sudden.
The woman says she checks every couple of hours to make sure her husband is not lying in his orchard with a self-inflicted gunshot wound in his head. When the meeting is over, the counselor adds their names to a suicide watch list.
The NSIDC has released the March figures for Arctic ice extent.
Importantly, they describe how the decline in older ice continues. This is important, because more 1st-year ice means more susceptibility to higher melt.
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
