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JD on April 12, 2006 - 3:13am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
I think everything depends on the hurricanes though.  If we have more hurricane seasons like the last two, and if a scientific consensus emerges that the mode switch is due to global warming, I think the politics of coal will look extremely different in very short order.

That would be a great thing, and I'm definitely on your side. However, even if the hurricanes continue, I still think it's going to take the mother of all political streetfights to keep any fossil fuel in the ground.

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mcgowanjm on April 12, 2006 - 10:09am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
However, even if the hurricanes continue, I still think it's going to take the mother of all political streetfights to keep any fossil fuel in the ground.

But this is where Synergy and the Power Laws come in.

Climate Change is underway.  And instead of preserving
Carbon Sinks, the West does a China.

The Tragedy of the Commons.  Amazonia lose it's Carbon
Sink Status by 2015 (maybe sooner) Kilimanjaro loses it's
Snow Cap by 2015. Expect the Atlantic Thermohaline Conveyor
to quit by 2020.

But that is just the beginning, a report in Nature said last week. Future disasters around the Himalayas will include 'floods, droughts, land erosion, biodiversity loss and changes in rainfall and the monsoon'.

At the same time, rivers fed by these melted glaciers - such as the Indus, Yellow River and Mekong - will turn to trickles.

Even as humans do the Rule of 70, our ecology is screaming
it's loss.

We've got our foot on the accelerator as we slam into the Time Wall.

James
James

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oil on April 12, 2006 - 11:39am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
This is an unbelievably depressing statement.
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BOP on April 12, 2006 - 2:25pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

 But you cannot dispute the truth of it.
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popple on April 12, 2006 - 6:07pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
It would be difficlt enough if we merely had to contend with the science, but the BushCheney shuck and jive make any consensus on global warming extremely tough.
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