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• Fwd: 100 Month Warning

  2008-10-09 12:05:34 UTC

  Richard,
  
  Sadly, the 100 Month Warning in August came out before September's tragic news about methane hydrates off the Siberian coastal shelf now releasing methane to the atmosphere. This carbon feedback is what we've feared ever since 1990 -- that warming in the Arctic would destabilize them. Since methane hydrates are the largest source of carbon on the planet, this means there is a good chance that runaway global heating has been triggered or is imminent.
  
  This can no longer be about switching to CFLs. Only a massive, multinational effort to convert totally and rapidly from fossil fuel energy to renewable energy (and to transform our fossil fueled economic system to an economics based on safe, clean, peaceful, perpetual energy sources) can save us now. This is a true planetary emergency.
  
  This news proves how correct UNEP's GEO-4 (November 2007) state of the planet assessment was -- global climate change is a "threat to the very survival of humanity." 
  
  The movie that Carol Dollard sent round last week explains carbon feedbacks and tipping points very well. If you haven't watched it and shared it yet, here's the link to Wake Up, Freak Out ? Then Get a Grip again: 
  
  http://wakeupfreakout.org/film/tipping.html 
  
  If you're short of time, you can click on the script and references to review it quickly. 
  
  p.s. Richard, please send us more news from the Our Common Future conference. Thanks!
  
  For the Earth, the Future, and the Children of All Species,
  Julie Johnston 
  
  GreenHeart Education 
  Pender Island, BC, Canada
  http://www.greenhearted.org/greening-the-curriculum.html

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