Polar Bear on Melting Ice Cap: Global Warming / Climate Change

2-10 inches ocean rise

2-10 degrees Fahrenheit temperature increase

over 20-100 years

{I learned this in the early 1980s, and didn't ride in a car for around 22 years as a kind of Quaker witness}



These still seem like reasonable, possible developments due to climate change, worth mitigating, and worth planning for ... Just as we buy 'buy house insurance,' let's develop a plan to manage global warming and reduce CO2 output ...


Let's reverse global warming ...


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Al Gore's film "An Inconvenient Truth" suggests a scientifically-realistic, possible 20 feet sea level rise, as a mid-range scenario.


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The Copenhagen climate change conference (2009) facilitated a conversation among most nation states, where science is still on the table informing policy. How to handle the differences between rich and poor countries, besides further talking?


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Have fruitful ideas about how to manage ocean and climate change? Teach to your web camera:


worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Ocean_%26_Climate_Management_Plan



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Here's Columbia University Professor Jim Hansen on global warming and the Copenhagen Climate Summit (on Democracy Now - 22 Dec 2009):

http://www.democracynow.org/2009/12/22/leading_climate_scientist_james_hansen_on



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And these predictions I heard in the late 1970s/early 1980s are very similar to what the Environmental Protection Agency writes today:

Future Temperature Changes:
epa.gov/climatechange/science/futuretc.html


Future Sea Level Changes:
epa.gov/climatechange/science/futureslc.html








(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/12/polar-bear-on-melting-ice-cap-global.html - December 23, 2009)