Monday, August 11, 2008





On a planet 4C hotter, all we can prepare for is extinction

We need to get prepared for four degrees of global warming, Bob Watson told the Guardian last week. At first sight this looks like wise counsel from the climate science adviser to Defra. But the idea that we could adapt to a 4C rise is absurd and dangerous. Global warming on this scale would be a catastrophe that would mean, in the immortal words that Chief Seattle probably never spoke, "the end of living and the beginning of survival" for humankind. Or perhaps the beginning of our extinction.

(Via Chris Wren's blog.)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

They also post a response from somebody with a brain.

Fun blog. I hope you don't let silliness like this ruin your life.

Mac said...

I hope you don't let silliness like this ruin your life.

Wouldn't dream of it.