Here's four big Green Thumbs-Up from my wife and me to Eugene residents Olivia Chernaik, 11, and Kelsey Juliana, 15. The Register Guard reports:
...with the help of their mothers, Lisa Chernaik and Catia Juliana, [the girls] filed a lawsuit against the state of Oregon and Gov. John Kitzhaber, accusing them of violating their duties to uphold the public trust and to protect the state’s atmosphere, water, land, fishery and wildlife resources from the impacts of climate change.
Excellent! The lawsuit is being brought under the aegis of iMatter, a group that encourages kids to get involved in the fight to preserve their future from the very real threat of global warming.
Pretty darn simple. Too bad so many adults don't grasp these truths.
Like a good share of the membership of the Oregon chapter of the American Meteorological Society, who, bizarrely, have their heads firmly in the sand of global warming denial. The genuine scientists in this bunch must be hugely embarrassed by the antics of their anti-scientific colleagues.
Earth to the Oregon Chapter: your parent group, the American Meteorological Society, strongly affirms the reality of human-caused global warming, as does every reputable scientific organization in the world.
Despite the uncertainties noted above, there is adequate evidence from observations and interpretations of climate simulations to conclude that the atmosphere, ocean, and land surface are warming; that humans have significantly contributed to this change; and that further climate change will continue to have important impacts on human societies, on economies, on ecosystems, and on wildlife through the 21st century and beyond.
Focusing on the next 30 years, convergence among emission scenarios and model results suggest strongly that increasing air temperatures will reduce snowpack, shift snowmelt timing, reduce crop production and rangeland fertility, and cause continued melting of the ice caps and sea level rise.
It's embarassing to Oregon that we have so many adults, including professional meteorologists, who don't understand the science of global warming. Hopefully they'll learn from the children and grow up, scientifically.
I'm afraid that there is nothing to "understand" about global warming. It is a condition which we simply observe.
It is the contention of some that human activity is responsible for accelerating global warming by way of the liberation of carbon into the atmosphere. (As if that were somehow unnatural)
The simplest (and only) way to slow global warming is to eliminate about 3/4ths of the human population.
That's exactly what's going to happen anyway - once the full effects of global warming rearrange the environment to the extent that survival will only be possible in technologically enhanced enclaves.
Humans will accelerate the depopulation of the planet by killing each other in greater numbers as the frightening inevitability of climate change becomes apparent.
Say goodbye, now.
Posted by: Willie R | January 31, 2012 at 06:12 AM