Reblogged from Brave New World:
By: Alton C. Thompson
Bill McKibben’s recent Rolling Stone article, “Global Warming’s Terrible New Math,” should give anyone—whether an American or a citizen of any other country—pause. Among the many scary statements he makes are these:
- Most climate scientists believe that a 2° C. increase in the global mean is the upper limit of safety—i.e., that that is the likely “tipping point,” so that if that point is reached, further warming will occur at an increasing rate.
At the tipping point, and still some people with clear interests block anything that can help the rest of the Humanity