Monday, January 24, 2005

Ladies and Gentlemen, your exit visas do not come in little cups.

From the IPCC:

"Above the 2 degrees level, the risks of abrupt, accelerated, or runaway climate change also increase. The possibilities include reaching climatic tipping points leading, for example, to the loss of the West Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets (which, between them, could raise sea level more than 10 metres over the space of a few centuries), the shutdown of the thermohaline ocean circulation (and, with it, the Gulf Stream), and the transformation of the planet's forests and soils from a net sink of carbon to a net source of carbon."

If it is any consolation, Florida will be among the first to go.

Sigh. There should be more of this.

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