Did we pass a point of no return?
I felt this was happening as more and more Data has come in....but didnt want to feel like my Tin Foil Hat was heating up. Of all the things happening on this Earth right now....this one actually causes me a bit of worry. What do you all think....am I just Paranoid?
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No one can say exactly what it looks like when a planet takes ill, but it probably looks a lot like Earth.
Never mind what you've heard about global warming as a slow-motion emergency that would take decades to play out. Suddenly and unexpectedly, the crisis is upon us.
From heat waves to storms to floods to fires to massive glacial melts, the global climate seems to be crashing around us.
The problem -- as scientists suspected but few others appreciated -- is that global climate systems are booby-trapped with tipping points and feedback loops, thresholds past which the slow creep of environmental decay gives way to sudden and self-perpetuating collapse. That's just what's happening now.
It's at the north and south poles -- where ice cover is crumbling to slush -- that the crisis is being felt the most acutely. "
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/03/26/cov...cnn_topstories
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