Ten Years or Else!!!

Today's Washington Post tells us that some now say we've got 10 years before it's too late. An article by Juliet Eilperin underscores that "the end of earth is now within sight." What's interesting is that the so called "tipping point" is now on the table. This means that events are now accelerating beyond man's ability to reverse them. And how will this happen?

Self absorbed climate researchers are now telling us that the "collapse of Greenland's ice sheet and that of Antarctica" will overwhelm the world, sinking Manhattan and south Florida. They say that events are now clearly underway that will assure that these ice sheets will melt. To Eilperin's credit, she includes real measurements that tell us that: "While both the Greenland and the Antarctic ice sheets as a whole are gaining some mass in their cold interiors because of increasing snowfall, they are losing ice along their peripheries." Say what? Both are gaining ice, but in the wrong places?

It gets better. "Stanford University climatologist Stephen H. Schneider, who is helping oversee a major international assessment of how climate change could expose humans and the environment to new vulnerabilities, said countries respond differently to the global warming issue in part because they are affected differently by it. The small island nation of Kiribati is made up of 33 small atolls, none of which is more than 6.5 feet above the South Pacific, and it is only a matter of time before the entire country is submerged by the rising sea."

Imagine an entire nation and culture now ending. So I checked on the Nation of Kiribati. It seems the government has asked Australia to allow its citizens to emigrate there because they charge that Australia is part of the CO2 pollution that is raising the sea level. But Pacific Magazine's Michael J. Field writes otherwise. "The problem, however is this: the Pacific Ocean has not risen in the last decade. The data does not support any sea-level rise at all says Wolfgang Scherer, the director of Australia's National Tidal Facility at Flinders University in Adelaide. The facility, funded by Australian aid, has over the last decade installed tide gauges across the Pacific, including one at Tuvalu's capital atoll, Funafuti. Results are 0.00 gain in sea level."

In fact, the only measure is that the "sea level is lowering." For me it's again fact over fiction. If it's so clear and apparent that the earth is at risk, where's the beef? Not at the Washington Post or in Greenland or Antarctica and especially not in Kiribati.