Are We On A Point Of No Return?

[Dreaming Of Pandora]

Originally Posted by auroraglacialis

Greenpeace is still one of the "better" large organizations when it comes to protection of the environment. Compared to lets say WWF, who already tend to bend their opinions to the money of "supporters" and accept building pipelines in the Amazon!

And I agree with them that nuclear power is about the stupidest thing one can do to replace coal and gas. It is an unsafe technology and no one knows yet where to put the waste. Also it is immensely expensive, just the costs do not show up because of subsidiaries (sp?) and mostly because the costs are in the disposal of waste, which is not happening (and not costing anything) yet. There is no reason why not invest the effort and money into solar power instead. It is a proven and safe technology, the power can be stored in various ways (pumping water or air in lake reservoirs or depleted gas reservoirs below ground).

I still wonder what the 500 months mean - I mean what do they say will happen at this point? It is quite a long way until then. 40 years - much can happen until then, so in PR terms this is a backlash, as if I would be a critic and read we still have 40 years, I'd say "oh, no worries then, we still have plenty of time to find some solution". Personally, I think 500 months may be the time when we are seriously doomed, but every year that passes now makes things worse. Did you hear the news, that this winter, the gulf stream already did change? Did you hear that studies show, that the gulf stream is already slowing down even now? Not in 40 years... People say "oh look, we had a cold winter this year, so global warming is a scam", but this is just the opposite - it is a result of global change and it is in tune with the Gaia Theory, that Earths systems have some regulatory mechanisms. Meaning if the gulf stream stops due to global warming, it may actually be good. Europe and Canada may freeze over, the snow cover reflects heat and the warming is slowed. Good for the Earth, not so good for the people living there....

Yeah the effects of the Gulf Stream slowing had huge impacts on Ireland a couple of months ago. Ireland and Britain are most affected by the Gulf Stream and that is evident last winter.

My city never once flooded since it was built (hundreds of years ago). Last winter my city was submerged in 6 feet of water and just when we thought that was over we experienced the coldest temperatures ever recorded in our country. The coldest it ever got was around -4 or -5 celsius, one night during January temperatures plumetted to -25 degrees celsius (-13 Fahrenheit). The kind of temps. the Artic experiences.

So Im getting pretty nervous if this keeps up for the next couple of years because it's just gonna get worse and worse.

At least if we do screw up Earth she has a natural defense mechanism to send us back to the stone age, nature.