James Hansen on Runaway Warming
December 16, 2010
Dr. James Hansen is, of course, NASA’s lead atmospheric scientist.
No need for me to add anything.
A longer presentation is after the jump.
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December 16, 2010 at 11:11 am
Great 5 min video. Question: I can’t find a particular link, but I’m sure I remember reading general skepticism about the possibility of a runaway greenhouse effect. Does anyone have any links to hand on this? My interweb googly skills are letting me down…
December 16, 2010 at 11:41 am
you are correct, there is skepticism on this point.
Don’t have a quick link available.
But runaway or not, 5, 8, or 10 degrees of warming will bring
unheard of catastrophes for human beings.
December 16, 2010 at 12:05 pm
Indeed. A link from the Guardian today on desertification. A quote:
“Since the early 1980s, a quarter of the planet’s land has been despoiled and 1% a year continues to be lost… ‘The world is driven by city dwellers: political leaders are setting agendas to satisfy people who live in the cities, we therefore tend to perceive soil as just dust, or mud, or a dumping place. But if we don’t preserve that first 20cm of soil, where will we get our food and water from?’ “
December 16, 2010 at 12:08 pm
Apols for the multiple posts, I always forget something. Just to offset the misery of the last post -
http://permaculture.org.au/2007/03/01/greening-the-desert-now-on-youtube/
Only five minutes; the amazingly cheering take-home message = with some simple earth-works as a foundation, scrubland ended up not only producing food, but being moist enough to develop its own fungi. Hope is not lost!
December 16, 2010 at 12:48 pm
great link.
I can do multiple uplifting posts with this.
December 16, 2010 at 12:54 pm
Excellent – hit ‘em with the Berkeley-approved misery-hope 1-2. Kapow!
December 21, 2010 at 12:00 pm
From the same talk, here is is a 50 minute discussion after Hansen’s talk by Hansen, Naomi Wolf and a Canadian tar sands activist.