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The Dark Side of Climate Change: It's Already Too Late, Cap and Trade Is a Scam, and Only the Few Will Survive #environment #climate
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7-8-2009 7:50 AM
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a0678ece-e763-469d-82cf-de9cf2200f6b/03376A4E-C2C0-440C-B6A4-C17538FA6730/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.alternet.org/environment/141081/the_dark_side_of_climate_change:_it%27s_already_too_late,_cap_and_trade_is_a_scam,_and_only_the_few_will_survive/?page=2" href="http://www.alternet.org/environment/141081/the_dark_side_of_climate_change:_it%27s_already_too_late,_cap_and_trade_is_a_scam,_and_only_the_few_will_survive/?page=2" style="font-size: 11px;">www.alternet.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/environment/141081/the_dark_side_of_climate_change:_it%27s_already_too_late,_cap_and_trade_is_a_scam,_and_only_the_few_will_survive/?page=2">Lovelock also examines five dreaded positive feedback loops, those processes now underway that at some point will become ferocious amplifiers of global heating</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/environment/141081/the_dark_side_of_climate_change:_it%27s_already_too_late,_cap_and_trade_is_a_scam,_and_only_the_few_will_survive/?page=2">the loss of reflective ice cover, the death of carbon eating algae as oceans warm, and methane released by thawing permafrost—will soon accelerate the heating trend underway, leading to sudden and dramatic shifts in global climate. Rather than the steady rise predicted by the UN’s IPCC, Lovelock is confident the change will resemble economic charts of boom and bust, full of sudden and unexpected discontinuities, </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/environment/141081/the_dark_side_of_climate_change:_it%27s_already_too_late,_cap_and_trade_is_a_scam,_and_only_the_few_will_survive/?page=2">“There is no tipping point, just a slope that gets ever steeper,” writes Lovelock.</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.alternet.org/environment/141081/the_dark_side_of_climate_change:_it%27s_already_too_late,_cap_and_trade_is_a_scam,_and_only_the_few_will_survive/?page=3" href="http://www.alternet.org/environment/141081/the_dark_side_of_climate_change:_it%27s_already_too_late,_cap_and_trade_is_a_scam,_and_only_the_few_will_survive/?page=3" style="font-size: 11px;">www.alternet.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/environment/141081/the_dark_side_of_climate_change:_it%27s_already_too_late,_cap_and_trade_is_a_scam,_and_only_the_few_will_survive/?page=3"> Lovelock guesses the rump human race will cluster around a few temperate islands in the far northern hemisphere,</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/environment/141081/the_dark_side_of_climate_change:_it%27s_already_too_late,_cap_and_trade_is_a_scam,_and_only_the_few_will_survive/?page=3">Lovelock's promised land is more humble: an evolved species capable of living in balance with Gaia. </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/03376A4E-C2C0-440C-B6A4-C17538FA6730/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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