A DIALOGUE...
dear david,
what is happening right now?
why does it all seem so upside down?
i wanted to share my simple and personal post i made on my site today.
as always, when i'm pondering the future, i think of you.
http://lightningismygirl.blogspot.com/
i hope all is better than great, with work and play.
melissa
RESPONSE:
Oh Melissa, these are dire times. Just look at Canada after heroically keeping
Kyoto on target and resisting the pressure from the US to discard Kyoto, we
elected a guy who says he doesn't believe in meeting the Kyoto target and wants
to come under the US umbrella.
We have already begun an experiment with our home and nothing we do now can
reverse what we've put into the atmosphere. The challenge is to see whether we
can at least stop adding to what we've already done. I am afraid there is a lot
of methane which is a much more potent greenhouse gas frozen in the permafrost.
Now that the permafrost is melting, there will be a huge boost in methane
released which will accelerate the warming. We are in for tough times.
I just gave a talk in the US and told them that I was in the US when the Soviets
launched Sputnik in 1957. In the two years that followed, the US failed
miserably to get their own rocket into orbit while the Soviets put up the first
animal, man, crew, woman. We realized how advanced they were in science, math,
engineering and medicine. The US didn't moan that it cost too much to catch up,
they decided immediately they had to beat the Russians to the moon, poured
money, people, resources into it and look what happened. Not only did they beat
the Russians, it spawned all of the telecommunications revolution and even
today, 40 years later, when Nobel prizes are announced, the Americans win most
of them. So it's shocking to me when Americans look at climate change and
immediately say it will cost too much, rather than taking it on as a challenge
AND opportunity!
I'm thrilled to see that Jimmy Carter has put out a book warning about what's happening.
The damned media haven't been doing their work either, giving Bush a free ride, the way
Harper got an easy time of it.
Gotta stop. You didn't want a diatribe from me. Stay in touch. David