June 17, 2013 - Perhaps no one word describes climate change better than volatile . There are a number of words like volatile that can help clarify what is meant by climate change: mercurial, fluctuating, and transient all can be applied - at times - to this emerging phenomenon. As it emerges, it will grow in geographical impact, grow in severity of effects, grow in variety of effects, and grow exponentially as a result of positive feedback. Last year will always be better than this year. It will outpace us - our inability to act collectively will result in millions of individual actions. Most of them will have been poorly thought out. For now, we must learn to accept that many of our poorly-informed collective actions only serve to compound errors. Sequestration - a puzzling action at best - has stripped $50 million from the Forest Service's budget, eliminating the jobs of 500 firefighters. Those still employed w...
Understanding the global-warming world: causes and ramifications.