The IPCC Report
Well, they're finally getting around to actually talking about global warming. In a world where leaders who call themselves persons of good moral character will kill another person's child over a profit margin on oil, did you really think they'd roll over and admit they'd screwed up? Not without a fight.
This new report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of the United Nations is solid and direct and basically lays it out that we cannot stop the juggernaut, but we can slow it down and brace for it.
Reports are being edited down and modified, trying to soften this "inconvenient truth" so that those in power do not look like the genocidal bastards or ignorant lemmings they are. No one wants to look so bad while staring into a future so terrifying. But we're past the stage of whistling past the graveyard.
I admit I was not among the first on the environmental bandwagon. I wasn't one of the worst, but I should have lent my voice to the cause long ago. Would it have mattered for much? Who knows? Sometimes even one more vote, one more voice, one more word is all that is required to reach the tipping point.
Politically, here in the US, this is going to be exploited. Individuals who have any record of support for environmental causes will be aided. All we need is another Katrina-level event in the next year and the Democratic Party will probably have to consider drafting Al Gore as their candidate for President. Why not? He won the last time he ran. That a Supreme Court of historic corruption chose to disenfranchise enough voters to crown their benefactor's son does not change that.
I do not want my children and my grandchildren to inherit a planet unfit for their survival. Let's see what we can do. Now.
