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...