A world dying, but can we unite to save it?

[Briar]

A world dying, but can we unite to save it?

Pollution in the seas is now speeding global warming, says a devastating new climate report. 'IoS' Environment Editor Geoffrey Lean reports from Valencia


Humanity is rapidly turning the seas acid through the same pollution that causes global warming, the world's governments and top scientists agreed yesterday. The process – thought to be the most profound change in the chemistry of the oceans for 20 million years – is expected both to disrupt the entire web of life of the oceans and to make climate change worse.

The warning is just one of a whole series of alarming conclusions in a new report published by the official Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which last month shared the Nobel Peace Prize with former US vice president Al Gore.

Drawn up by more than 2,500 of the world's top scientists and their governments, and agreed last week by representatives of all its national governments, the report also predicts that nearly a third of the world's species could be driven to extinction as the world warms up, and that harvests will be cut dramatically across the world.

United Nations Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon, who attended the launch of the report in this ancient Spanish city, told The Independent on Sunday that he found the "quickening pace" of global warming "very frightening".

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http://environment.independent.co.uk/climate_change/article3172144.ece

[KewlKat]

1. My family has been discussing this very subject

In order for everyone to really address the quickening issues of Global Warming, the world would have to stop everything else that's going on first to really be able to institute change. I don't see that ever happening! Too many wars, conficts, occupations, starving, big business, etc. I don't think the world can multitask and institute the kinds of change we need to even slow the pace. I think we are beyond the tipping point and very few will survive.

James Lovelock has said many things, but this one was most telling to me:

"It is a bit like if your kidneys fail you can go on dialysis -- and who would refuse dialysis if death is the alternative. We should think of it in that context,"

"But remember that all they are doing is buying us time, no more. The problems go on," he added.