Global Warming - BEWARE

TIME.com: Polar Ice Caps Are Melting Faster Than Ever... More And More Land Is Being Devastated By Drought... Rising Waters Are Drowning Low-Lying Communities... By Any Measure, Earth Is At ... The Tipping Point -- Apr. 03, 2006 -- Page 1: "Polar Ice Caps Are Melting Faster Than Ever... More And More Land Is Being Devastated By Drought... Rising Waters Are Drowning Low-Lying Communities... By Any Measure, Earth Is At ... The Tipping Point

The climate is crashing, and global warming is to blame. Why the crisis hit so soon--and what we can do about it"

No subscription to this magazine, so unfortunately, which is actually fortunate, I won't be reading the rest of the article.

"No one can say exactly what it looks like when a planet takes ill, but it probably looks a lot like Earth. Never mind what you've heard about global warming as a slow-motion emergency that would take decades to play out. Suddenly and unexpectedly, the crisis is upon us." Everyone uses a tagline to bring the reader in, but my guess is it doesn't get anymore accurate than the previous. "Don't know what it looks like....but it probably looks..." Unhunh. My God, globabl warming isn't slow...it's ripsnorting right on through.... Suddenly what has taken millenia may be moving along as it has. Suddenly we notice and can follow and track it. Suddenly it is upon us....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"It certainly looked (looked, seemed, appeared, basically this doesn't mean jack!) that way last week as the atmospheric bomb that was Cyclone Larry--a Category 5 storm with wind bursts that reached 180 m.p.h.--exploded through northeastern Australia. It certainly looked (looked, seemed, appeared, basically this doesn't mean jack!) that way last year as curtains of fire and dust turned the skies of Indonesia orange, thanks to drought-fueled blazes sweeping the..."

And after millenia, it is all Bush's fault for saying NO to Kyoto...