Is the world telling us to get off?
Posted by: Clint Marchant
20th Apr 2012 09:15pm
gadgetgeek
- 6th Jun 2013 11:23pm
By our excessive greed we have increased the rate of climate change. Global warming is a misnaming of the effect. We need the greenhouse effect to keep us warm, otherwise earth would be freezing. However years of excessive greenhouse gases, cars and other contributors have caused a massive almost exponential increase in the effect on our environment. That is why we are having 1 in 100 year floods every year or even bi-yearly in Australia, tornadoes for the first time and twice having temps of 40C+ in Sydney city typical of a Dubai spring! This is not natural climate change, we have done this. I think we have already gone past the tipping point. For decades the scientists including NASA have been monitoring the Carbon dioxide levels in the North and South poles and finding huge increases in the levels directly attributable to massive global industrialisation 1950+. There are actual graphs to prove this. Also surely you don't think the events of New York's floods were that dissimilar to the Day After Tomorrow. We are not doing enough about climate change and yet Australia is already facing the brunt of it more than the rest of the world. The facts stare us in the face and yet unlike Europe and Asia we ignore at our peril...and talking of food prices and the economy...failing to heed our environment by building on sensitive water tables, no building flood-prevention systems, not being prepared for hotter summers in our capital cities and ensuring public transport works (The rail system broke down in the morning and afternoon peak times!)..that is why we need a climate preparedness levy NOT a poorly named misunderstood Carbon tax...
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