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Climate scientists grow more concerned as Rome burns, Nero fiddles

 

In most fields of science, lay opinion tends to be more alarmist than scientific

opinion, says Carbon Mitigation Initiative codirector Robert Socolow. " But, in

the climate case, the experts -- the people who work with the climate models

every day, the people who do ice cores -- they are more concerned. They're going

out of their way to say, 'Wake up!' " In part three of her magisterial New Yorker

series on climate change, Elizabeth Kolbert says those calls are finding a mixed

reception. In the Netherlands, a quarter of which is already below sea level,

the government is funneling millions into projects to widen rivers, raise dikes,

and alert the public. However, in the U.S. -- which is responsible for more than

20 percent of planet-warming carbon-dioxide emissions -- public debate is

woefully confused and action woefully inadequate. " It may seem impossible to

imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to

destroy itself, " concludes Kol bert, " but that is what we are now in the process

of doing. "

 

 

straight to the source: The New Yorker, Elizabeth Kolbert, 09 May 2005

 

And Bugs Bunny is a friend of mine

Eating him I'd feel like Frankenstein

Eating flesh seems pretty foul to me