We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Thursday, September 19, 2013

Is climate change already dangerous ( Part 2): The Arctic

Click here to access article by David Spratt from Climate Code Red.




It is now clear that the Arctic is heading quickly for summer periods free of sea ice.  A linear extrapolation of sea-ice mass loss suggests it may occur within a decade or so.  An exponential fit, which is a better fit for the current data, suggests it might occur within a few years .