This is one of those moments when the pace of climate change and its consequences become simply extraordinary.
In the last two weeks, I’ve spent some time trying to unravel the Arctic’s big melt of 2012 and what is means for future global warming and the world we will live in.If one clicks on the article in the Scotsman where the prediction by this Scottish scientist is reported, one discovers once again that the only real solution now being considered are geo-engineering fantasies. It is now clear that past affirmations from our masters in the One Percent about reducing carbon output was all propaganda to calm resistance to their ongoing projects of wealth extraction for their class. Nothing, not even destruction of our planet, will deter our masters from pursuing their addictions to power and profits.
In my darker moments I sometimes think that I should re-name this blog as some sort of chronology of the human race's decent into barbarism as we experience one ecological catastrophe after another.