Climate change could mean the extinction of our species

[RaskiaLorenz]

Global warming is real, the ice sheets are melting and under the ice "perma frost" there is a time bomb! there are billions of tons of methane under the ice cap, which is 20 times stronger than CO2, if the ice continue melting the methane will be liberate to the atmosphere, then humans will be walking in a planet never seen before.

People who don't believe in climate change, need to wake up! they haven't looked both sides of the debate or they are totally ignorant people!

All the best well known and Nobel Scientist in the world are telling us to stop, stop now or we will fuck up the only home we have, the Earth!

If a doctor tell you that you have an infection and you need to take antibiotics as soon as possible or you will die, you will listen to the doctor, because he knows about your body.
90% of the Scientists out there are telling us the same thing, we are killing our home planet, we need to STOP now when the Earth still have the ability to heal itself from what we've done, but we are not listening.

I have a gorgeous Nissan leaf electric car, the best car of the year in 2011, the best electric car of the year 2011, and the best car I ever had. Brazil 7th largest economy on Earth have 98% of its energy from renewable sources, clean energy from hydroelectric powered plants, Denmark together with other Northen europen countries already have 60% of their energy from green source like Wind and solar powered plants, UK just started the largest wind farm on earth, producing an astonishing 1 Gigawatt and will have 22% of its energy from clean energy by 2018. US just started constructing the biggest solar powered plant on Earth, over 1 Gigawatt. We already damage the Earth too much, the time to change is now.

I'm also vegetarian, no animals paying cruelly with their own life for my stupid pleasure, no agriculture to feed animals to be a beef for me, instead of animals agriculture should feed people, there are millions dying every week of hunger!

DNA have proved we are naturally vegetarians, meat short our life span with many diseases.

Think about it people, for the ones who still don't believe we are fucking your world and only home, wake from your defence mode, and try to see the things from a different perspective. It will good for you and everyone else.

love

Raskia Lorenz xx

[Stavros]

I have a gorgeous Nissan leaf electric car, the best car of the year in 2011, the best electric car of the year 2011, and the best car I ever had. Brazil 7th largest economy on Earth have 98% of its energy from renewable sources, clean energy from hydroelectric powered plants, Denmark together with other Northen europen countries already have 60% of their energy from green source like Wind and solar powered plants, UK just started the largest wind farm on earth, producing an astonishing 1 Gigawatt and will have 22% of its energy from clean energy by 2018. US just started constructing the biggest solar powered plant on Earth, over 1 Gigawatt. We already damage the Earth too much, the time to change is now.

The important point here is that there are practical measures that can reduce carbon emissions, while making the transition to new sources of energy -the problem with the insistence on immediate change is that it sounds like panic, and thus tends to alienate people. I am not saying the situation is not serious, but we need to generate a feeling that change is possible, as much as that it is necessary.

[Ben]

[Ben]

[russtafa]

this issue is bringing the socialist Australian government down with a disapproval rating of 83 percent

[trish]

Really? There's a socialist government in Austalia? And the the Keystone XL Pipeline is a big issue there? Look again, I think you got something wrong.

[russtafa]

No a climate tax on carbon emissions which everyone has had a gutfull of and that's why[government] they are on their last legs

[trish]

Someplaces the revenues.collected from specific taxes are funneled to specific projects. For example, some States in the US dedicate gasoline tax revenues to road maintenance and construction. Lottery money (a disguised poor man's tax) goes to education. Just curious if the Australian carbon tax revenues are dedicated to any particular public service?

[Stavros]

Australia is not really a country but a continent, and one that has had a volatile climate for millenia -it's the nature of the place. One of my favourite poets, Judith Wright, born in New South Wales in 1915, wrote a compelling book about her father and the sheep farmers who were based in Cairns (The Generations of Men, 1959) which chronicled the difficulties new farmers had with local Aborigines, but particularly the ferocious droughts which decimated herds, destroyed livelihoods and sent many south never to return. Thomas Kenneally, after the fires in 2009 wrote a typically eloquent piece on the deliberate bush-burning which was practised by Aborigines and inherited by settler communities -none of which endorses climate change but does emphasize the fact that even in Sydney or Melbourne the climate will one day catch up with you -because you live in Australia.

My guess is that the Gillard governmet has opted for Pascal's Wager on climate change: better to introduce policy now than lose in the long term. In any case I can never understand why people would be opposed to the reduction of carbon emissions, to take one policy strand -who wants to live in a gaseous cloud that might kill them and their children and turn the sky a sickly orange-brown colour at 3pm every day?
The fundamental argument, taken from the Stern Report, is that the cost of taking action now will be cheaper than taking it when the flames and floods are inside your door.

The Kenneally article is here, highly recommended:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009...-climatechange

[russtafa]

no go's into politicians pockets and crushes our mines and factories and makes the workers a little bit poorer that's why they are at 23percent in the polls and a good chance they wont be back for many,many years hopefully