Scientific reticence and sea level rise...

Mr. Hansen is right.

My stomach turns and twists at the developments in climate, and at how it is simply not seen by the general public as a threat.


These days the news is alarming and the world hardly notices.
Dancing as Rome burns...


Carbon emissions are increasing faster than expected,
while the ocean carbon sinks are slowing,
and still, most people think changing a few lightbulbs and a Prius or two will make all the difference...

Excuse me as I become profoundly depressed at our odds.
We are now past the high end of the IPCC worst case scenario.
We need drastic measures and fast, instead we are getting obstruction and inaction and harebrained schemes and carbon trading profiteers jumping the bandwagon.


We need the USA to stop obstructing as they have been doing at the G8, and starting to be part of the damn solution. (just for fun, do take the time to read the pdf I linked to, Greenpeace leaked the US draft copy with edits. You'll be amazed.)

The only way this will ever happen, is if scientists start saying what they know, what they think, what they expect and do this in common garden English. Plain as day, without hedging and without multi-syllable words. INFORM the public because if the scientists dont do it, we are all royally fucked for sure.