AP: Dismal climatic predicament for Copenhagen in big set of dreadful numbers
Just in case anybody out there is at all satisfied with either the scientific understanding or the management of global warming, the AP‘s Seth Borenstein pulls together a list of reasons – none new but not all usually seen in one pile – to believe that such words and terms as urgency, emergency, crisis, and crash program are all too mild to describe the predicament.
The piece kicks off a series of pre-Copenhagen packages that AP plans to run in advance of the big meeting to lay plans to eventually write something for nations to, one hopes, agree to do. Its repeated theme is that back at the Earth Summit nearly 20 years ago and the subsequent writing of the largely unheeded Kyoto Protocol, the IPCC gang badly under-estimated how quickly and how hard climate change’s impacts would hit. No need to hunt up any grist for this mill – Seth puts links at the bottom of his story.
- Charlie Petit
