[LINK] The meaning of climate change denial

[Jan Whitaker]

At 07:40 PM 26/06/2012, Richard Chirgwin wrote:
>"Warmer" is done and dusted;
>"the impact of warmer" is probably incalculable from our position, but
>you'd have to be a knave or a dupe to calmly say "nothing's going to
>happen. Stay calm and carry on".

There was a common discussion on radio this morning, saying the 
planet is at risk.

Bollocks. The planet is fine, thank you very much. The arrogance of 
humans in the scope of life, even just on earth, is breath-taking.

The threat is to the current bio-scape, which includes humans, and 
may really only do much damage to humans because of our reliance on 
human "managed" food production and living near the 
coastlines/waterways where the major systems of modern life are based 
(NYC, Washington D.C., Melbourne, Sydney and London come to mind). 
What will be disrupted is our current social structures. The question 
will be if we will adapt quickly enough to move our major systems 
away from the threat of oceans on low-lying islands/coasts, replace 
the shipping ports, and rehouse all the people who are displaced. 
Will our technology manage? Maybe.

Losing Florida will be no biggie in the long run. What other land is 
threatened? all of our cap cities in Australia?

Jan



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