Climate Change Is Nature's Way?

By: HOWARD BLOOM

Climate change activists are right. We are in for walloping shifts in the planet's climate. Catastrophic shifts. But the activists are wrong about the reason. Very wrong. And the prescription for a solution—a $27 trillion solution—is likely to be even more wrong. Why?

Climate change is not the fault of man. It's Mother Nature's way. And sucking greenhouse gases from the atmosphere is too limited a solution. We have to be prepared for fire or ice, for fry or freeze. We have to be prepared for change.

We've been deceived by a stroke of luck. In the two million years during which we climbed from stone-tool wielding Homo erectus with sloping brows to high-foreheaded Homo urbanis, man the inventor of the city, we underwent 60 glaciations, 60 ice ages. And in the 120,000 years since we emerged in our current physiological shape as Homo sapiens, we've lived through 20 sudden global warmings. In most of those, temperatures have shot up by as much as 18 degrees within a mere 20 years.

All this took place without smokestacks and tailpipes. All this took place without the desecration of nature by modern man.

The stroke of luck that's misled us? The sheets of ice in whose shadow we made a living for two million years peeled back 12,000 years ago leaving a lush new Garden of Eden. In that Eden we invented agriculture, money, electronics and our current way of life. But that weather standstill has held on for an abnormally long amount of time.

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这是我刚在Wall street Journal读到的一篇。小有意思。
现在全世界的老大们还有专家还在哥本哈根开会，就是对CO2 排放量要达成协议。简单讲，就是新兴国家 中国印度和 美国欧盟的 角力战。

无独有偶，这篇文的作者，刚好是出生在Buffalo的，我开始读时，以为整篇应该是 说听天命，神来神去什么的，后来发现没有，他说的有论有据。
我还读过一篇文，是意大利大学的一个Professor, 他讲冰山是从下开始融化的，所以影响最大的是应该是地热，而Global Warming只是扮演很小的角色。

有没有很眼熟？！

没有错，这是2012的剧情。

打个比方，你坐在椅子上吃东西，到底是因为椅子里边放了一瓶热水让你觉得热，还是因为周边的环境让你觉得热，还是你因为刚才输了钱，浑身不舒服，本来就全身不爽？
hrm...众说纷纭。

刚好我前一阵的Produt design 的 Project和 Polymer Research 的 title 都是关于 Green Technology.
Biodegradable 还有 toxicity free，这两点是大势所趋.

O.K， 我承认我还是有在用plastic 袋。