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Thursday June 02, 2011 12:41

by Chris Hedges

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Those who concede that the planet is warming but insist we can learn to live with it are perhaps more dangerous than the buffoons who decide to shut their eyes.

This is the message from Chris Hedges as he writes on the weird weather and the danger to our planet. Full story at url.

The rapid and terrifying acceleration of global warming, which is disfiguring the ecosystem at a swifter pace than even the gloomiest scientific studies predicted a few years ago, has been confronted by the power elite with two kinds of self-delusion. There are those, many of whom hold elected office, who dismiss the science and empirical evidence as false. There are others who accept the science surrounding global warming but insist that the human species can adapt. Our only salvation—the rapid dismantling of the fossil fuel industry—is ignored by both groups. And we will be led, unless we build popular resistance movements and carry out sustained acts of civil disobedience, toward collective self-annihilation by dimwitted pied pipers and fools.

The Earth has already begun to react to our hubris. Freak weather unleashed deadly tornados in Joplin, Mo., and Tuscaloosa, Ala. It has triggered wildfires that have engulfed large tracts in California, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Texas. It has brought severe droughts to the Southwest, parts of China and the Amazon. It has caused massive flooding along the Mississippi as well as in Australia, New Zealand, China and Pakistan. It is killing off the fish stocks in the oceans and obliterating the polar ice caps.

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Comments (51 of 51)

#	Title	Author	Date
1	Worst Ever Carbon Emissions Leave Climate On The Brink	Loki	Thu Jun 02, 2011 12:49
2	WTF?	Real Scientist	Thu Jun 02, 2011 15:55
3	All too real.	Student of the Atmosphere.	Thu Jun 02, 2011 20:11
4	Data source = HADCRUT3 - GLOBAL Mean	hahaha	Fri Jun 03, 2011 21:01
5	Contradictory Statements usually indicate either deception or just plain old nonsense	FFS	Sat Jun 04, 2011 00:31
6	it CAN be both. it all depends on what your premises are....	Serf	Sat Jun 04, 2011 10:46
7	Fair point . . . but	me	Sat Jun 04, 2011 14:46
8	Romney says humans cause climate change	Speranza	Sat Jun 04, 2011 20:23
9	Climate study gets pulled over plagiarism. Climate Skeptics Caught Cheating.	Speranza	Sat Jun 04, 2011 20:55
10	distraction and off-topic posting	me	Sat Jun 04, 2011 21:08
11	Me	Speranza	Sat Jun 04, 2011 21:16
12	Record Emissions Of Carbon Dioxide: The Bells Are Ringing For Humanity	Speranza	Sat Jun 04, 2011 21:26
13	CRU	Speranza	Sat Jun 04, 2011 21:42
14	changing the goal post . . . again?	me	Sat Jun 04, 2011 22:18
15	Now you're just making stuff up	me	Sat Jun 04, 2011 22:36
16	speaking of dishonesty . . .	me	Sat Jun 04, 2011 22:55
17	CO2 has no causal relation with global warming: not powerful enough to cause observed changes	Real Scientist	Sat Jun 04, 2011 23:14
18	me/real scientist	Speranza	Sun Jun 05, 2011 14:07
19	Re: your problems understanding data-sets and graphs and the importance of timeframes	me	Sun Jun 05, 2011 15:32
20	slight correction	me	Sun Jun 05, 2011 15:35
21	me	Speranza	Sun Jun 05, 2011 17:37
22	re: your inability to understand graphed data and timeframes	me	Sun Jun 05, 2011 17:40
23	Trucks lose, ships win in warmer Arctic	Speranza	Sun Jun 05, 2011 17:42
24	me	Speranza	Sun Jun 05, 2011 17:50
25	me/realscientist	Speranza	Sun Jun 05, 2011 18:15
26	me	Speranza	Sun Jun 05, 2011 18:42
27	oh lordy - Over the course of 5 posts Speranza appears to goe into complete meltdown	me	Tue Jun 07, 2011 17:52
28	g'day, me..	opus diablos	Wed Jun 08, 2011 14:26
29	Me	Speranza	Wed Jun 08, 2011 15:23
30	Business as Usual, with poor old Opie	oh lordy, here we go again	Wed Jun 08, 2011 16:17
31	you really are just making it up as you go along	me	Wed Jun 08, 2011 20:52
32	me	Speranza	Wed Jun 08, 2011 21:25
33	Real data	Speranza	Wed Jun 08, 2011 21:56
34	intrepretation of data is different from representation data	me	Wed Jun 08, 2011 22:48
35	me	Speranza	Thu Jun 09, 2011 12:30
36	Looks like the Inmates have taken over the Asylum	me	Thu Jun 09, 2011 14:04
37	Evidence for you, . . . . as if more were needed.	me	Thu Jun 09, 2011 18:44
38	me	Speranza	Thu Jun 09, 2011 23:54
39	Data	Speranza	Fri Jun 10, 2011 00:42
40	constant repetition and little else from Speranza	me	Fri Jun 10, 2011 01:03
41	me	Speranza	Fri Jun 10, 2011 01:15
42	Trying to move the goal posts . . . again??	me	Fri Jun 10, 2011 01:59
43	more of the same from Speranza	hahaha	Fri Jun 10, 2011 02:10
44	oh lordy, me	opus diablos	Fri Jun 10, 2011 12:42
45	To Indy Readers	Speranza	Fri Jun 10, 2011 14:27
46	nothing 'out of context' about that graph	yeah . . . whatever	Fri Jun 10, 2011 20:38
47	me etc	Speranza	Sat Jun 11, 2011 13:25
48	OK, one more time	opus diablos	Sat Jun 11, 2011 18:15
49	oh here we go . . . again?	me	Mon Jun 13, 2011 02:44
50	I forgot to post what I was replying to in one sentence above	me	Mon Jun 13, 2011 13:54
51	me(ndacity)	opus diablos	Mon Jun 13, 2011 15:09

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