Is global warming a warning about impending events that are headed our way? Does the Kyoto treaty agreed on 11 December 1997 at the 3rd Conference of the Parties (to the treaty when they met in Kyoto, and entered into force on 16 February 2005) objectively address the stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere or is there something else at play here?
The Earth is hurtling toward a warmer climate at a quickening pace, a Nobel-winning U.N. scientific panel said in a landmark report released today, warning of inevitable human suffering and the threat of extinction for some species.
After five days of sometimes tense negotiations, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change adopted its fourth and final report this year, along with a summary, on the science of climate change and the effects of human-produced greenhouse gases. It lays out blueprints for avoiding the worst catastrophes - and various possible outcomes, depending on how quickly and decisively action is taken.
Do we have any clue what is ahead in the next five years?
The document says recent research has heightened concern that the poor and the elderly will suffer most from climate change; that hunger and disease will be more common; that droughts, floods and heat waves will afflict the world’s poorest regions; and that more animal and plant species will vanish. Is the drought in Georgia and the Southeastern U.S. proof of what’s ahead?
It’s time to get serious about who we are as a people on this planet.
We’re not here by accident, nor to just feed our egos!
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