St. Maarten Private Eye

Three news stories from this past week stand out to me and they should to you. Time really is running out, no joke and no pessimism intended. Here's a message for Masood and Spadaro. In 15 to 20 years there will be no tourists staying in your hotels and no customers for your insurance, we will likely be too busy trying to survive.

The first story is the news that the first 4 months of 2007 have been the hottest on record. As Climate Progress points out, this is especially worrying when you look at the chart below showing temperature anomalies (differences from normal) and think about Permafrost thawing. Much of the permafrost regions are frozen vegetation and when it thaws it starts to release methane, a gas that is 20 times more damaging than CO2. Methane is also found on the ocean floor and this large resevoir could also be released as oceans warm.

They also point out that the Arctic Sea Ice is now the least since records began in 1979. You can find lots more information here.

The second bit of news I would like to bring to your attention is this story about Polar ocean 'soaking up less CO2' and then follow it with the third story about how drought, which is going on in many places all over the World, is causing plants to soak up less CO2 too.

These stories could all be considered Tipping Points, events that trigger or have knock on effects that send our planet's climate into a tailspin. Time is really running out.

The technology and knowledge is available, all it takes is good people to do something, instead of nothing.

Caribdude