Coming Soon to a Planet Near You: Global Disaster

Scientists from all over our planet are gathering this week in Paris, to put together the fourth IPCC report on what the MSM persists in continuing to call "global warming." The "pc" term for it for some time has been global climate change...and if you live just about anywhere in the USA this winter you understand the use of that term. Here in Albuquerque we had what they are calling a fifty-year snowstorm just about a month ago, and smaller snow storms just about every weekend since that one. We left our snow shovel behind on the East Coast when we moved, because we were universally told "oh, it never snows in Albuquerque...Or, if it does it's gone in a couple of hours when the sun comes back out." There are still iced-over piles of snow in our yard from the fifteen to eighteen inches that fell New Year's weekend, and there was not a shovel of ANY kind to be found in this city.. so we now have a brand-new backsaver snow shovel that I ordered express delivery from The Vermont Country Store. There is no longer any "never" or "always" or "usually" when it comes to talking about the weather. While we shivered and shoveled, my niece in New England was watching her daffodil shoots getting taller by the minute, and her cherry blossoms about to bloom.

All who have gotten previews of the IPCC paper, to be released Friday, if the scientists (who appear to have as much trouble coming to agreement as Democrats) can agree on hammering out the language, report what any sensible person would expect: it's a very scary picture: from Canada's Globe and Mail: The fallout of global warming: 1,000 years; In stark terms, scientists confirm that climate change is 'unequivocal. ABC News obtained a "sneak preview" of the draft, and their report is here: Report Is Expected to Confirm Increasing Evidence of Role People Play in Global Warming.

The IPCC ( Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) is a panel created by The United Nations in 1988 to to observe and assess climage change and release reports on its findings every five or six years. Critics of the UN are, of course, also critics of the IPCC, and many contrarians call its findings alarmist. However, because it relies on input from hundreds of scientists, including skeptics and industry researcher and its reports must be unanimous, approved by 154 governments _ including the United States and oil-rich countries such as Saudi Arabia, it is by nature relatively cautious.

This being the case, I think we all should be feeling like Bob Cesca is as he contemplates the findings of this report in his blog on The Huffington Report today: The UN Preicts a Global Disaster...And Right Soon. Cesca lets out all the stops as he rants, also raves, about the details coming out of Paris:

Global warming is one of many crucial issues that continues to be buried here in America.

There's nothing "sexy" about it. There aren't any explosions for slick cable news bumper graphics. People aren't melting like that hissing Cheney-ish Toht character from Raiders of the Lost Ark. The chief spokesman for the issue is former Vice President Al Gore, who, however compelling and awesome, is still unfairly stereotyped as a slow-talking turtley cartoon character.

Even the name, "global warming," doesn't carry the same pulse-poundingGOTCHA! beat as, say, "This Week At War" or "Cavuto Talks To Endangered Hooters Girls!" or "Cavuto Talks To Endangered Hooters Girls Who Look Like Scarlett Johansson And Who Are Killing Cavuto By Crushing His Skull With His Own Horseshit Machine!"

But now I think we have enough meat on the issue to rocket it towards the top of the This Is Kind Of Important, No? issue list. There's officially nothing else that ranks as being more important. Not the Libby trial, not the war, not the minimum wage, not stem cells or abortion. A distant second might be nuclear proliferation, but I can't think of another issue that carries the potential of literally crushingthe human race.

He goes on give us a horrifying list of concrete details from the report, after which he ponders new names for global warming that might make people sit up and pay more attention, among them: The Global Killer, Death by Weather, and his favorite, Global Disaster. The many comments following Cesca's blog entry are especially rivetting, showing the spectrum of public opinion and knowledge (or lack of it) on this subject floating through virtual space today.

Tags: bob cesca, disaster, global warming, ipcc report

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