About
this Collection of
Articles on Global Warming
The
Earth's climate is changing so rapidly that All
Life on Earth is in jeopardy, and it's all
happening within our lifetime!
I'm a computer scientist (BS, MS), not a biologist.
It's not me that's saying Global Warming is real.
The world's top scientists are saying Global Warming
is real ! Also, we are in the Sixth
Largest Mass Extinction of Life in the
history
of the earth. Read what scientists have
to say about this and Global Warming in this collection
of articles.
Before you get started, you might want to read
these two "articles" first.
They are a bit of dark humor to help you take the
bad news.
- "Scientists
Warn of Global Coincidence"
- "Rich
Awed by Poor Ability to Survive"
Much of the information in this collection
of articles is quite disturbing, especially taken
as a whole, and will alter your view of life on Earth
and hopefully move you to action.
Why did I collect these articles and
reports?
Like many of us, I've had this terrible suspicion
for a long time (about 10 years), that Life on Earth
was headed for disaster. For a long time, I've been
seeing lots of irrefutable evidence that the behavior
of the First World societies was dooming a significant
portion of Life on Earth to extinction.
However, I wasn't completely sure, and since I was
only learning one article and book at a time, my awareness
was growing in what seemed to me, very slow motion.
I've read books by experts that spell out the nature
of this man-made disaster-in-progress, but I wanted
to see for myself the raw material of what the media
was reporting. I decided to speed things up and do
my own investigation. I'm sharing those articles and
reports that I found with you here on these web pages.
About this Collection of Web Pages:
I restricted myself to examining mostly just what
the media was reporting, and only what I could find
on the web. If I saw a relevant article in the local
paper, I would quickly go visit their web site to
copy the text of that article for this collection.
At the bottom of this email is a complete list of
all of the information sources that I used to collect
these articles.
"Business
as usual" is over. Mother nature will see to
that soon enough.
To help you gain confidence that these articles and
reports were actually published, I put the original
web site address (URL) at the top of each article
that I have put on this web site. You
can click to see each original article at its source.
As happens regularly on the internet,
web pages come and go. Don't be surprised if you don't
find anything on the other side of a few of the links.
For example, you can expect all of the Yahoo news
links to have expired long ago. Yahoo news links don't
last very long. Also, many of the on-line newspapers
move their articles to their pay-per-view archives
after a week or so. After that, they will show you
the first couple of paragraphs for free, and then
request that you pay to view the full article.
I did not want to read someone else's compendium of
information and worry about whether their references
were correct. It can take a lot of time to verify
even just a few references. Also, other people's collections
of articles on the web didn't have what I wanted:
(1) Each article should have a link to the original
at the top, so the reader can not only easily read
the original article at the source, and also to see
what kind of web site hosted the article for additional
contextual information.
(2) The link to each article should also show the
date and source of the article. This way, the reader
doesn't have to visit each link to decide its relevance
by date or by source.
(3) The web collection should have a local copy of
the article so that if the external article vanishes,
or that web site has been reorganized (thus breaking
the link), at least the local copy of the article
can be read.
I
started in earnest on January 1, 2002, investigating
sites on the web, looking for articles on topics
such as global warming, the US attack on our civil
liberties, globalization, the anti-war movement,
as well as the War on Iraq, media propaganda and
manipulation and many others.
I thought it appropriate that on 1/1/02, my Gary
Larson desk calendar showed the cartoon shown on
the right. Click on both of these images to see
the full-size versions of the cartoons. This is
a little dark humor to set the mood for what has
turned out to be a macabre investigation about the
dark prospects for the future of Life on Earth. |
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For the past 24 months, I've been scanning the web
looking for articles, scientific reports in both
the mainstream and specialized media. I manually
copied and pasted each article that I found and
then set it aside for formatting and organizing
later. I collected over 1,600 articles on various
topics as mentioned above. From those 1,600 articles,
I pulled the most relevant articles on the topic
of Global Warming for this particular
collection.
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- Another great resource for additional analysis, links,
articles, and solutions for life on earth is www.HeatIsOnline.org,
a great web site by Ross Gelbspan, a pulitzer-prize winning
journalist and author of "The Heat is On: The Climate
Crisis, the Cover-Up, the Prescription" (1998)
What
I found was astounding. To quote the Environment
Minister of Britain, Michael Meacher, "There
is a lot wrong with our world. But it is not as bad as
many people think. It is worse. Global warming
is slowly but relentlessly changing the face of the planet."
Another
very interesting statement from Dr. Robert Watson,
Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC), whom the Bush Administration recently tried to
oust.
"So those who say I'm an advocate don't want
to hear the message that indeed the earth is warming;
that most of the warming of the last 50 years is attributable
to human activities; that carbon dioxide is the key human-induced
greenhouse gas and that most of it comes from fossil fuels.
There are some people who clearly don't want to hear that
message, but that is the message of the IPCC, and it's
obviously the message I give when I speak. I also talk
about the uncertainties as well, but if that's advocacy,
then by that definition, I'm guilty. But I've
never advocated for a particular policy position. I'm
very careful to say that it was the governments of the
world that decided in Kyoto that the science was compelling,
and that therefore, they needed to have reductions in
greenhouse gases.
What I will say, which is a scientific statement, is
that without reductions in greenhouse gas emissions,
then we would project an increase in the earth's surface
temperature of 1.5 to 1.8 degrees centigrade. That again
is not a policy statement, it's a scientific statement."
Use this Collection of Articles as Motivation
| If
you need some motivation to... |
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- Join
the Peace Movement to stop US
Wars of Aggression and Acquisition |
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- Join
the Global Justice Movement to
stop Trans-National Global Corporations from
exploiting the entire human population and what
few healthy ecosystems still remain on the planet |
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- Join
the Civil Society Movement to strengthen
democracy and human rights here and around the
world |
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- Join
the Environmental Movement to stop
the currently-in-progress, Sixth Largest Mass
Extinction of Life on Earth |
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- Join
a local group in your community to make a difference
where you live |
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- If
you live in the south bay, join the South
Bay Mobilization to help Educate, Involve
and Mobilize your community for peace and justice
to make a difference right here, right now. |
In
these web pages, I hope you will find the motivation
you need to take action.
Sincerely,
South Bay Mobilization
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