>Hoagy did a great job of documenting the situation -- >if only they could recognize the truth when they >see it :-). Unfortunately, it's a matter of selective >perception. Something that is too threatening to ones >way of life, or just too uncomfortable for ones >emotional state to bear, will HAVE to be dismissed >regardless of any evidence presented. > >Perhaps part of the answer is to present the >inevitable readjustment as a GOOD thing to be >welcomed rather than feared. Certainly in my own >case, it's only the benefit of having had several >DECADES to cogitate upon this stuff that has made >it seem LONG OVERDUE to me....... -K
Hi Ken LONG overdue, yes. The Kyoto Protocol should have been a binding agreement reached at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992. That was the intention, it was to be the centrepiece at Rio (I was at the ministerial climate conference in Nairobi that preceded the Rio Conference). That much has footdragging accomplished, and more - it probably requires 60% cuts, Kyoto is just a drop in the bucket with its 1990 levels by 2012 or whatever. By the way, there's a LOT of good stuff in the archives on climate change, global warming, the Kyoto Protocol: http://archive.nnytech.net/index.php?list=biofuel Re denial, friend Misha posted this below to SANET a while back, in similar circumstances. Best Keith >Howdy, all-- > >Those of you who prefer science to wishful thinking and corporate >propaganda on the matter of human-induced climate change will >appreciate these resources. > >First, and best: > >/Climate Change and the Global Harvest: Potential Impacts of the >Greenhouse Effect on Agriculture/. Cynthia Rosenzweig, Daniel >Hillel. Oxford U. P., 1998. >ISBN 0-19-508889-1. > >Cynthia is with the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies at >Columbia U. She is an ag scientist (all three degrees). > >See these research links for more on GISS's work on climate change, >climate forcings, paleoclimate, and more: >http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/ > >Second, I have found this collection very useful: > >/Global Climate Change and Agricultural Production/. Fakhri Bazzaz, >Wim Sombroek. Rome, FAO, 1996. Cloth ISBN 0-471-95763-1. Paper ISBN >0-471-96927-3. > >See particularly information on changing hydrological cycles, >regional vulnerability, and the combined effects of changing CO2, >temperature, UV-B radiation, and ozone on crop growth. > >Third, A nice popular guide--praised by Jim Hansen of NASA/Giss, >David Suzuki, and Rev. Sally Bingham (Episcopal Power and Light)--is: > >/Stormy Weather: 101 Solutions to Global Climate Change/. Guy >Dauncey, Patrick Mazza. 2001. ISBN 0-86571-421-5 > >My favorite sections are "Moving toward a world without fossil >fuels," and the solutions that highlight the fossil-fuel- and >transport-intensive industrial/global food system. > >Fourth, here in the Pacific Northwest, we have > >Climate Solutions >http://www.climatesolutions.org/ > >Climate Solutions publications on-line >http://www.climatesolutions.org/staging/pages/pubs.html > >CS's Energy Outreach Center is right here in lovely downtown >Olympia. "The purpose of the Center is to acquaint you with some of >the major considerations when building, buying, or remodeling a home >while having minimum impact on the environment. The energy-saving >materials and ideas not only save energy, therefore saving money, >they also help to save the planet from pollution, wasteful use of >non-renewable resources, and ultimately, dangerous climate changes." > > >WARNING! Using these resources will remove the potential for smug >ignorance or comforting ourselves with fairy tales. Like how it >doesn't make any difference to the atmosphere's chemistry, when >humans take huge reserves of carbon, locked deep within the earth >since long before we ever evolved, and transfer them into the >atmosphere in a tick of geological time. > >These resources also convert whistling in the dark into singing in a >new key, so only those with a truly musical soul should use them. > >:^) > > >peace >mish > > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >Michele Gale-Sinex > >Home office: 360-459-5683 >Home office fax: Same as above, phone first for enabling >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >The Earth is not dying, it is being killed, and those who are >killing it have names and addresses. -Utah Philips ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Your own Online Store Selling our Overstock. http://us.click.yahoo.com/rZll0B/4ftFAA/46VHAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
