Good News, Bad News
As any of you who have read along for a while here know, I have been obsessed with global warming since Katrina last year. I had been hearing about the feedback effect for some time but I have just read first in-depth report.
The good news is that it has been snowing here since about 11AM. It is still coming down and it is after 5: PM now. It is a perfect powder snow that brushes off the windshield without much effort. My elderly dog and I went out to just revel in the delight of it. She is so skinny now that her little plaid winter coat slips & slides around her bony body but it does offer a bit of warmth, which she needed tonight.
The bad news, is that the Ayles Ice Shelf, 41 square miles across, has broken off into the ocean from Canada. Scientists are now watching the cumulative effects of a rapidly escalating feedback between events that could easily push us past the point where traditional carbon sinks, as oceans, ice and forests, are adequate to absorb emissions. And worse, writes Steve Conner, in The London Independent, December 29, 2006 (see: http://tinyurl.com/y78xh3). These traditional bulwarks that have held for 55 million years, may themselves become sources of emissions as they are pushed past a place of no return.
The good news is that it has been snowing here since about 11AM. It is still coming down and it is after 5: PM now. It is a perfect powder snow that brushes off the windshield without much effort. My elderly dog and I went out to just revel in the delight of it. She is so skinny now that her little plaid winter coat slips & slides around her bony body but it does offer a bit of warmth, which she needed tonight.
The bad news, is that the Ayles Ice Shelf, 41 square miles across, has broken off into the ocean from Canada. Scientists are now watching the cumulative effects of a rapidly escalating feedback between events that could easily push us past the point where traditional carbon sinks, as oceans, ice and forests, are adequate to absorb emissions. And worse, writes Steve Conner, in The London Independent, December 29, 2006 (see: http://tinyurl.com/y78xh3). These traditional bulwarks that have held for 55 million years, may themselves become sources of emissions as they are pushed past a place of no return.
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