World of wasted time: Climate change has stopped being human-created and in our control. Now what?

from NOW Toronto:



World of wasted time
Climate change has stopped being human-created and in our control. Now what?
By WAYNE ROBERTS

Ironically, the memo has come too late – and is no longer true.

Two new science reports from authoritative United Nations agencies, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) confirm confidently what is now denied only by climate perverts: global warming has been caused by human activity.

But this truth, representing the hard-won consensus of thousands of the world's leading scientists, is no longer as relevant as some hoped.

In fact, evidence in the reports themselves suggest this is retro thinking. For one thing, it is no longer true that human activity determines the major ups and downs of climate change. Natural momentum now follows its own rules.

And for another, it appears we have entered a new paradigm, where the language of "climate chaos'' and "global starving'' is replacing "global warming'' - a phrase that should be shunned as climatically incorrect and Eurocentric (aka racist and speciesist.)

We have had 20 years of lost opportunities as the world waited for a scientific consensus and squandered tie. Now these reports seem like an empty victory. An extended phase of once-preventable destruction is now a done deal, thanks to patterns of nature that are no longer possible for humans to prevent. ......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2007-11-29/news_story6.php

That moment near the end, where the helicopter seizes up, and Steve Zissou remarks:

"This is going to hurt."

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