Blog Action Day

Ok, so it's already the 16th where I live, but it's the fifteenth where you live, right? So Cassie's post is the environmental contribution, and if you feel she's too bleak, well, check out the action day, lot's of hope, optimism and solutions there.

Vote 1 Democrats!

This election choose common sense and return the balance of power in the Senate to safe independent hands - re-elect Andrew Bartlett to the Senate.

Climate change skeptics

Gulp. Tipping Point Already Reached, Ten Years Early? October 10, 2007 Honestly FIM, you must be psychic! So what to do? Here are a few of the easier and painless solutions available now. 1. Solar hotwater on *EVERY* roof - no solar HW - No aircon. 2. Car free days for people who sit in offices working, with FREE hub and spoke public transport connections 3. Ban dark federation tile roof styles (I hate the sub-divisions with black rooves and not a solar HW system in sight!), and use UV solar blocker paint 4. Carbon Cops show on ABC TV showed how every household reduced their carbon footprint by at least 50%, doing the simple things we can all do. So what are we waiting for .... the Government to help? ROTFLMAO! Of course, there are lots more solutions out there, just pick one and go with it. And that includes voting for candidates and political parties who aren't "Johnnie come lately" to tree hugging, or are outright Climate Change Skeptics (and one would presume, also associate members of the Flat Earth Society). Personally, I think we're doomed and it's all over bar the shouting, but like the saying goes, "Even if I knew the world was going to end tomorrow, I'd still plant a tree today". I planted a tree today, how'd you go?

End of the world as we know it

So, everyone is still talking about "the tipping point" in regard to climate change. I got news for you people. We're past the tipping point, "2000 zero zero party over, ooops out of time"*, and galloping up on "the point of no return". With more and more science (your know, that stuff the skeptics say we need more of before we do anything) from the UN IPCC, Australian CSIRO etc. saying that we have to ACT NOW as more and more evidence piles up for 2012 being that point, and not just because that is when the Kyoto Protocol is up. It's the end of the world as we know it. (BTW there's been talk about the Mayan calendar date of December 21st, 2012 A.D. for many years.) The only comfort I take was recently articulated by Dr David Suzuki; in effect if we humans blow it, and climate change is an ELE (extinction level event), the planet will still be here, it's just that we human beings and a whole bunch of other species, won't. NB: Tim Flannery appeared on Lateline on Tuesday 9th; Celcius - tipping point already reached? DOUW! *Prince: (Party like it's) 1999