All Pollutants Are Global

The Journal Nature has an online article posted concerning the weakening of Atlantic Ocean currents.

The researchers report that there has been a 30% weakening in the 'Atlantic meridional overturning circulation' which helps to warm the upper latitudes, and includes the Gulf Stream.

The change has been extremely rapid. The 30% weakening has taken place in the last 50 years.

Since the material is likely to be new to most readers, I urge you to go and read the whole article. I cannot die it justice here. It's simply too much material to enter into a blog post. I have lots of far more detailed information, that I am going to be adding to my own online resource center within the next couple of months.

If there is one message that everyone needs to take away from this article, it is this:

"This is quite sensational information in itself," says Detlef Quadfasel, an oceanographer at the University of Hamburg in Germany. "But it is also an important message to politicians who negotiate the future of the Kyoto agreements: we do change our climate."

I am not going to continue to write my Congressmen(they are all men) and ask just what the f&ck they are doing to save us from ourselves. That avenue hasn't worked. I don't yet know what I am going to do. Me, you, the majority of the US scientific community, and other like minded individuals and organizations haven't been able to get the US to even sign onto Kyoto, much less do what's really necessary to halt the warming of the planet.

Kyoto is only a tiny fraction of what we need to do. But it's an important first step that the current Administration deems not economically feasible.

Well, when the Midwestern US dries up and can no longer produce an abundance of crops, their uppance shall be at hand.

The only thing less economically viable to signing onto Kyoto is to do nothing. That threatens us all.