[LINK] the weather makers

[Kim Holburn]

Sorry if this is off topic, perhaps the discussion can be moved to  
unlink.

I've just been reading Tim Flannery's book "The Weather Makers" and  
my reaction at the moment is "oh shit".  Especially when he talks  
about committed CO2 levels.

Actually it took me about 3 months to get past the first 2 chapters  
for some reason but the pace of my reading picked up after that, sort  
of like a positive feedback loop.

The horrifying thing is how far along we are in actual measured  
climate change.  There is some detail about the research basis for  
climate change.

It really seems that some of the major environmental disasters and  
wars in our time: the permanent drought in parts of Africa and the  
forest burning in Indonesia, the blame for have both been attributed  
to the people living there when they have both been the results of  
radical climate change.  The wars in the African region like the war  
in Sudan is about lack of water and climate change, yet it is  
presented by the media as a religious war.  The forest burning in  
Indonesia was presented as "naughty farmers burning off" but the real  
problem was the extended drought.

The results of that climate change (caused by Europe and the US) are  
very visible in Europe.  People are flooding in from uninhabitable  
parts of Africa.

The evidence of climate change is overwhelming and while oil is a big  
problem, the major problem is coal.

Kim

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