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Again the even heat is so fine. \u00a0Makes this feel like a work space instead of a commandeered backroom.<\/p>\n
Most of the time today reading materials for the Climate Change MOOC and then listening a set of lectures by Richard Somerville. \u00a0He’s a theoretical meteorologist which means that his work includes creating and running weather prediction and climate models. \u00a0He is understandable and dispassionate. \u00a0And all the more troubling for it.<\/p>\n
(this “ski slope” graph shows the rates at which emissions have to reduce when peak CO2 emissions happen on three different dates, one already past. \u00a0And we’re currently accelerating. again, see Great Wheel for particulars.)<\/p>\n
It’s bugging me right now that I’m putting up all this negative information on Great Wheel, but the terrain ahead of us has become clearer and clearer the further I go in this course. The world needs to act soon and the developed world needs to show leadership. \u00a0The EU has committed to emission goals that will meet the challenges and they have more people and a larger economy than we have. \u00a0We need to act.<\/p>\n
Then, we have to figure out the issue of sustainable development in the developing world, especially China and India, but in Brazil and Russia, too, the BRIC countries. \u00a0And we really don’t have much time. \u00a0In order to avert literal disaster (see Great Wheel for particulars) emissions worldwide have to peak no later than 2020 and begin then a very sharp reduction. \u00a0By very sharp reduction I mean getting to a world with 80% less carbon emissions before 2050. \u00a080%!!!!!!!!!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n This, the Great Work of Thomas Berry’s work of the same name, is one on which we cannot fail. \u00a0If we do, we consign our grandchildren (Ruth and Gabe) and their children to a world of currently unimaginable extremes in sea level rise, temperature, significant rainfall events, coral bleaching, ocean acidification and probably an increased severity of hurricanes and typhoons. \u00a0You wouldn’t want to live in this world and your children’s children won’t want to either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Winter \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Seed Catalog Moon Again the even heat is so fine. \u00a0Makes this feel like a work space instead of a commandeered backroom. Most of the … Continue reading Accentuating the Negative<\/span>