Monday, April 16, 2007
Now, for the consequences!
The first thing to note is that the poor will suffer the effects of GW first. Wealthy nations will have all the water they want while 1.5 Billion in Central Asia, Bangladesh in particular will be hit on one side by an early rush of water in the spring and declining amounts each year.
The early snowmelts will increase storm damage on the shore and bring draughts later in the inland towns. The polar bears that survive will be taken to a zoo, unless food it taken to them.
Northern California will get both: On the one hand the Bay Area Water level is expected to go up by about a meter while the early snowmelt will decrease the river flow in the summer by about 20 percent -by 2020. We need to start building dams real soon.
Highway congestion, incredibly, has been going down since 2003 and will continue to go down due to the high price of gasoline, which will continue to go up. In earlyApril, the annoucement was made that, for the first time, gasoline consumption for a year, went down in 2006.
But, the biggest boost towards a solution is that the California Primary will be in February, 2008, this guarantees that the "green" voice of California, with the largest number of electors, will dominate the political debate.
All the non-believers of GW will disappear and we will, finally, stop hearing their mantra: "It is CYCLICAL" or "It has happened before" as if that explained, or solved, anything. And, after their noise dies we will begin a discussion to the next step: Stop, like in Totally Stop, the Emission of Carbon Dioxide.
This time, probably end plans to remove carbon from coal, burnt coal, that is.
Even Nuclear powerplants, windmills and solar power cells show a greater promise for the future.
India and China are already planning to build many Nuclear Powerplants with Russian and American technology. If it is good and safe enough to sell, it should be safe enough to use.
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There is an ugly reality that may delay the Global Warming fight and make the response be too late...
Call it Indifference, Inertia, IcouldntCareLess Syndrome, whatever, the consequence is that these timid souls refuse to follow their intelligence and find refuge in their emotional mutual support.
Can they be convinced? Yes. But, will they be convinced, in time to do any good? Probably not.
They are like timid followers that do not want to seem as if they can or do think. They are your "spontaneous" live-for-the-moment, human-looking, person.
Technology did not fail them or us, education, or rather the lack of real mental training and discipline failed them and, regretfully, us.
We are in this together, either we all survive, or none survive.
We may be doomed by mental inertia.
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