Warming To The Subject

This shouldn't come as a surprise, but I suppose to many people it's news, of a sort: A panel of climatologists in Paris has just released a 21-page document saying that "Warming of the climate system is unequivocal," and that "There can be no question that the increase in greenhouse gases are dominated by human activities." In other words, things are going to change here on this little blue planet over the next century, and not for the better. The report goes on to say that this is something that will last for hundreds of years, and there is not a whole lot we can do at this point to reverse it. We can try to slow it down -- and we should -- but generations to come will simply have to learn to live with warmer and more severe weather, rising oceans and an Arctic region with little or no ice.

Being the selfish, self-centered sort that I am, it makes me glad in a sense that I won't live long enough to see the worst of it, and that I don't have kids who will grow up and have to deal with it. Tough luck for you young people out there and your heirs, though.

I wonder if anyone has notified notoriously fact-challenged right-wing shill and corporate apologist SF Chronicle columnist Debra J. Saunders about this.