Global Warming and Climatic instability.

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Most people have probably noticed the ad on the television that proports the reality of what global warming actually means for the world.

What it doesn't mean for a start is that Ireland will all of a sudden become a quasi-tropical paradise, no, what is in fact far more likely is that climatic instability will increase and the temperate climate of Ireland will become more and more unpredictable. More and more in all likelyhood summer and winter will become two indistinguishable entities as summers become more temperate and winters do the same.

Already the trend towards increased rainfall is moving from the relm of fringe scaremonger environmentalists to an ecological reality. Here are some links that pertain to the UK and obviously pertain to the Republic due to it's geographic nearness to the UK.

http://www.doc.mmu.ac.uk/aric/eae/Global_Warming/Older/British_Isles.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_969000/969282.stm

What all this means in practice kids is that when you take the car on your own to work or to school and your neighbour takes hers/his to relatively the same destination you are contributing to climatic instability and are increasing the likelyhood of flooding like has been happening with increasing frequency in the British Isles.

In short the burning of fossil fuels is heating the planet and that activity is ultimately detramental to human activity and human interests.

Par example, the average temperature drop during the ice age was roughly four to seven degrees celcius, thus if one assumes that even the most conservative estimates of global warming are for at least a one degree celcius rise in global tempratures the likelyhood of phonemna like desertafication as is happening in the Sahel in Africa become ever more threatening.

http://www.unccd.int/main.php

The desertification itself is caused by human activity and will only be agrivated by a warming of the climate globally.

If one considers that conservative estimates of global warming are 1 degree celcius with the mainstream considering a three to four degree rise in tempratures globally quite likely, the prospect of an anti-ice age, a desert age agumented with rising sea levels in places and mass flooding becomes ever more likely.

Thus every person has the ability to make a choice such as using public transport or buying energy efficient vehicles. Suvs make no sense for most urban dwellers and are a totally unnecessary accroutrament. 'Gas guzzelers' are not only inefficient but, highly irresponsible and a needless and dangerous pollutant factor that must and should be eliminated as quickely as possible.

In a broad sense the continued use of fossil fuels, shows the pandemic of smallminded and shortsighted instinct that drives the human psyche. Yes, people recognise that fossil fuels are polluting 'our' common planet, our home majorly, but a litany a miasmaic tirade of self serving reasons can be invented to fill humanities basic laziness and inability to pre-emptively abrogate major and near catastrophic destruction of our communal ecosphere.

It's been real

Von

This article in The Economist says everything's all right, getting better in fact.

Sposs

I Agree with Von,sorry typedef although a noble battle

i think your fighting against the tide:)

EvilGeorge

So by getting the bus I'm saving the earth - never really thought of it that way