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Wednesday, February 07, 2007

I did a google news search on global warming. Nearly all of the articles refer to the recent UN climate panel report that details the certainty global warming exists, the 90 to 99 percent likelihood it is due mainly to human burning of fossil fuels, and the likely effects over the next decades, centries and millenia. After reading many articles, this quote struck me:
(Taken from article by Alan Dupont, Wed. Feb 7, 2007, ¨Scorched Earth an Insecure Place¨, Online Opinion, onlineopinion.com, first published in The Australian on February 5, 2007)
¨Although these sobering statistics should be a wake-up call for action, complacency should not be replaced by alarmism or defeatism.

¨If climate change is human-induced, then the solutions can and must be found within our collective resources and wisdom.

¨As a first step, the Government needs to take a more comprehensive approach by developing a national strategy on climate change that considers all the consequences of a rapidly warming planet. For this is an issue that transcends the environment and goes to the heart of national and international security.¨

For complete article, see Scorched Earth an Insecure Place

The main things in this quote that strike me are that the issue is not just an environmental issue, but it transends that and it is fundamentally an issue of international security.

The second thing that strikes me is that we need to neither become alarmists or defeatists, but rather we need to face the issue with creativity and cooperation.

3 comments:

MJ said...

Hi PJ

Sorry I missed your call . I got abit of a report but hope to talk to you next time. Great article on Global Warming . Alot to learn and to do .

Well , off to Perry School early so I must get to bed. Happy Biking .

love
MOM

652 Sinner Radium. said...

Hi PJ

Soy el hijo de Flash, estoy en Monterrey junto con el, mandandote saludos esperando en Dios estes bien. Que mal que no hayas pasado por Mty. te hubiera gustado.

Esperando te comuniques con flash o conmigo.

Atte. Flash e Hijo

Unknown said...

hola hijo de flash,

quizas en el regreso voy a ir a monterrey. ojala va a estar! puede comunicar conmigo mejor en pauljosephpark@gmail.com

hasta luego,
PJ