General articles on Climate Change

[matt.dunwell]

Global Warming - No more Business as Usual: This is an emergency!

Here is a fairly hard hitting article form the guy that wrote [i]Climate Code Red[i]

Written this month, its up to date and may help push the debate . . .

http://links.org.au/node/683

[Michael Dunwell]

Al Gore, with a film and thousands of presentations all over the globe, has hardly begun to shift awareness at voter level. That level of awareness responds to catastrophic events, not scientific evidence; events like 9/11 and Hitler's invasion of France - as the article says. It is only events that enable politicians to make the necessary changes. When we wonder at Transition meetings what our constitution should be I am thinking that the terrorist model is the only one. What aweful deed, preferably not killing people, can be imagined - that would make people desperately afraid of emitting more carbon ? Al Quaeda managed to commit the US to a War on Terror, costing trillions, with one event.
A composer at the time described that event as pure genius and everyone cried shame, but he was so right. Step forward the creative imagination! Lower by helicopter as big a block of ice as it can lift on to the roof of 10 Downing Street and have it melting and flooding the building on TV for days? Feeble. I'm afraid it really has to hurt. So don't post it here; save it for the Miners on Nov.9.