The new science is rolling in from England, Australia, and the American Geophysical Union conference. The news isn’t chilling – it’s heating and it’s very scary.
To cover it, we interview two top people in the field. We open with David Spratt, co-author of “Climate Code Red – The Case for Emergency Action” – which is just now being released in North America.
I received an update from David, passed on by top Australian scientist Andrew Glikson. I trust Glikson, and he says Spratt has the science right.
It seems so hard to believe. Even a close friend, a life-time environmentalist, came out doubting science just a week ago. We have the denial mechanism designed into us, since our earliest days. Nothing in human experience, as taught and recorded by any civilization, revealed that the climate system was very delicate. In fact, our world was barely balanced between the “Ice House” (vast glaciation) and the “Hot House” (climates too hot for humans and life as we know it). Unknowingly, we are tipping the switch.
We MUST pay attention – no matter what the temporary weather is outside, or the political climate. It is time to learn or die.
Following, David Spratt, we go to one of the best – Hell – he is the best – climate blogger on the Net. That is Joseph Romm, a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress. During the Clinton Administration, Mr. Romm was acting assistant secretary of energy, responsible for energy efficiency and renewable energy.
Joe Romm’s blog “Climateprogress.org” is reprinted all over the place, including many features in the Grist Mill blog. We are lucky to get him on radio, explaining not just the hot new climate science, but the possibilities for surviving this natural trap.
Romm is also plugged into the Democratic science establishment, and describes some of the appointments made by Barrack Obama – that could help the climate.
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Here is a short list, but you should listen to the broadcast.
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Spratt is a solid scientist. He really knows his stuff. But, Joseph Romm? Are you kidding with this guy?
How does a CAP political operative qualify as anything other than a, well, CAP political operative? Romm’s job is to pimp democrats with cool sounding, but otherwise meaningless, greenwash. I mean, “urban heat island mitigation”? Seriously? What feel-good do-nothing pwogwessive nonsense!