Scientists claim planet is heading for "irreversible" climate change by 2040

I believe it will actually be much worse than this report suggests with the Greenland ice sheet collapsing very rapidly, raising sea level seven meters. Even if the situation were hopeless, I'd rather be able to tell my grandchildren that I did my best to make things better. In reality, though, there is hope in human ingenuity and creativity and love in recognizing that we are all children of Mother Earth. We have to get down to it and get to work.

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the weather forcaster isnt sure in their predictions why trust this. not saying we shouldn't be eco conscious, if it happens or not

Where can we buy the tee shirts?

CO2 is the stuff we breathe OUT.

We don't need extra in our face. People aren't GOING to die they are dying right now by the billions, dying from stupid little dang cold germs! When the Immune System has plenty of oxygen the human body can stop cancer, but in an extra-CO2 environment the cancers and germs stop us.

The disaster has already started.

This isn't a political issue people! Unless we take serious steps to change how we live we and all life on earth will not survive.We must all stop contributing to the pollution of our planet and we must do everything we can to influence others to do the same! Sticking your head in the sand,saying you'll be dead by 2040 so why care doesn't cut it anymore, because not only will the result of continuing to live the way we do effect us it will effect those who follow us! By 2050 the east coast cities will be underwater as the polar caps melt,the Air foul and poison to breath,Our rivers and oceans unable to support life,and the soil unable to support the growing of healthy food.none of this has to happen though cause if we start now,to change our self-centered lifestyles,we still may be able to turn what appears to be our future around! You had all better care now because its almost too late!

I bet plenty of people said to themselves "By 2040?! I'll be dead by then! I don't care!"

And that's why this shit will never get fixed.

If we had *finished* our anti-CO2 campaign in -2005-, then we would be doing damage control.

As it stands now, it's 2009 and we haven't even STARTED to do anything.

It's too late to stop it, we need to start thinking about how we're going to deal with this.

Because contrary to the common perception, global warming is NOT going to kill us all. That would be nice wouldn't it? A nice revelations style ending for human kind? But that's not what's going to happen. It's just going to make life on earth a living hell for human beings because all of the agricultural and climate knowledge that we RELY on to make our food and collect our water is going to be turned topsy-turvy.

Well of course you can always find transportation to another planet, but still, people will be dying across the voyage, and much the human population will decrease.....Just to even try to find another civilization will kill millions...

lets just go to mars and fuck up that planet and so on and so on

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Well, looks like a only hard work and bit of luck can only change this...

EVERYBODY PANIC!!!!

I think we're beyond the point of no return. Well. Humans created all of this mess, we can face our punishment.

This isn't a political issue and it is much bigger than your political hatred.

I'm with Lionboy. I'm at the point where I don't really care anymore whether this country or this planet survive. If the earth goes down at least it will take all of these ignorant, greedy, racist, warmongering, fascist repugs with it. If that means me and mine have to go down also, so be it.

Well, wait until we have environmental ruin that not only affects you but your children and grandchildren's ability to have a sustainable life on this planet. Will you care then?

Oh noes!

I'm heading for irreversible financial ruin. I genuinely wish I could care, but I can't.

They used to mine coal in the abandoned town of Carbon. Now this patch of southern Wyoming is a battleground in the debate over what many hope will be the clean energy source of the future: wind power. The Nature Conservancy is joining with policy makers, community members, businesses, scientists, industry leaders and others to slow the pace of climate change. We work to reduce the accumulation of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere and help natural areas adjust to the impacts of climate change. Climate is the average pattern of weather over the long term. The earth’s climate has warmed and cooled for millions of years, since long before we appeared on the scene. There’s no doubt that the climate is growing warmer currently; indications of that change are all around us. See also, http://personalmoneystore.com/moneyblog/2009/07/30/virtual-assistant-jobs-easy-m... for further information.

At the rate we are going we will reach 450PPM by 2020, especially with climate bills that fail to address the root causes of the crisis and do not seek to place necessary GHG emission targets that will help stabilize CO2 emissions as well as emissions of methane and other GHGs. This is the truth that those who post only political target posts about Al Gore don't want people talking about. Real Scientists worldwide are sounding the alarm bells on the climate and the effects of it are being felt and seen on every continent and that fact cannot be disputed.