Sunday, November 18, 2007
“WORLD WILL HAVE TO END”
Associated Press calls it the IPCC’s most authoritative report to date! The New York Times hails it as forceful and powerful! Everybody’s talking ‘bout the superwarm thriller with a plotline that chills:
The world will have to end its growth of carbon emissions within seven years and become mostly free of carbon-emitting technologies in about four decades to avoid killing as many as a quarter of the planet’s species from global warming, according to top United Nations’ scientists.
Only a quarter? They must be planning a sequel.
To avoid heating the globe by the minimum possible, an average of 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, the world’s spiraling growth in greenhouse gas emissions must end no later than 2015 ...
It’s like Faster, but produced and directed by the UN.
That would require a drastic reworking of industrial processes, transportation, agricultural practices and even the buildings people live in, according to the report’s calculations.
Yes. Yes, it would. Here’s a fun plot twist: let’s start with the building Al Gore lives in!