Since I have become a member of the GPUS Eco Action Committee, I have been getting lot of informaiton and articles on ecological and environmental issues. I am really getting an education.
Yesterday the article below, by Ted Glick, came across my desk. Ted gives an overview of where we are with the climate crisis issue and what lies ahead. He calls upon everyone to become educated and involved, beginning at a personal level.
A Victory in Montreal, But. . .
By Ted Glick
“The Earth’s climate is nearing, but has not passed, a tipping point beyond which it will be impossible to avoid climate change with far-ranging undesirable consequences. These include not only the loss of the Arctic as we know it, with all that implies for wildlife and indigenous peoples, but losses on a much vaster scale due to rising seas. . . The Earth’s history suggests that with warming of two to three degrees, the new sea level will include not only most of the ice from Greenland and West Antarctica, but a portion of East Antarctica, raising the sea level by twenty-five meters, or eighty feet.” James Hansen, NASA scientist, as quoted in 1/12/06 N.Y. Review of Books
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