I don't know if it's the newspapers hyping things up or if it's true that CO2 emissions were going down by 500 million tonnes a year on Sunday, but today they aren't .... and we are in actual fact already in a haze of CO2, methane and blasting heat.Sunday's paper said (Observer newspaper): "Melting ice may slow global warming", adding the expertise of a geologist. Sheets of ice which break off Antarctic ice blocks will form smaller icebergs which should trigger off a reaction from the sea bed minerals, which in turn causes a natural removal of CO2 from the atmosphere.
But then, in the Guardian yesterday on melting ice and CO2 emissions and global warming: "Too late? Why scientists say we should expect the worst". It was after a high-level academic conference on global warming at Exeter University, where apparently everyone had that (literal quote of) "strange feeling" that it wasn't looking good.
The reason being that carbon emissions are soaring out of control. And it wasn't just Kevin Anderson the Climate scientist who felt doomed. Bob Watson the chief scientist at the Environment Department decided to add, "We must alert everybody that at the moment we're at the very top end of the worst case (emissions) scenario."
There was no solution. Literally an article on how species diversity, crops and low lying land is more than under threat. That we should just accept and expect the worst. Are we doomed?
What ever the outcome here, I'm definitely sticking to my recycling.
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