writeaboutwarming

April 10, 2014 – I wrote this article a little while ago, and Transition Voice hasn’t used it.   I think it’s useful, so I thought I’d publish it here. Know Your Limits                         There is a growing consensus that 2 degrees Celsius of global warming will be too much ( http://www.livescience.com/41690-2-degrees-of-warming-too-much.html ).   As the winter of 2013-2014 gradually winds down, we see the evidence of what less than 1 degree of warming can do all around us.   The costs have yet to be tallied, but there is universal acknowledgement that budgets were virtually meaningless this winter.   In order to keep the United States functioning at a level anywhere near normal, states and corporations had to break the bank.   The alternative was inconceivable. Yet merrily we roll along, calmly averring that there is sti...

December 20 – The Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, has issued a very powerful issue of their periodical, Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society A, entitled “Four Degrees and Beyond.” The Royal Society A is a British organization that has been in existence for 350 years. Its website can be accessed at http://royalsociety.org/ . I’d like to direct your attention to what I believe are the more important aspects of one of the articles comprising this issue. This may or may not be an educational experience, because I’m rushing in where angels fear to tread, i.e., I’m going to try to make sense of a pretty high-toned scientific paper. Because I don’t have a background in climatological science, I’d like to issue a disclaimer. While I will make every effort to simply ignore the parts I am unable to understand, it is entirely possible that unintentional errors may make an unwanted appearance. I’m not going to attempt to claim that this will be the firs...