Got to watch the 2004 movie "The Day after Tomorrow" over the weekend. It’s a good movie, even though basic science gets grossly abused in the process of creating the required gripping story line. Nonetheless, it’s interesting to look at how far we’ve come in our appreciation of climate change since 2004:
- The polar ice caps are melting away MUCH faster than was predicted in 2004.
- It’s now known and generally accepted that Abrupt Climate Changes have happened and will likely happen in the near future.
- Al Gore and the IPCC received the Noble Peace Price for their work on the subject of human-caused global warming, indicating how much more accepted human-caused climate change is now in the scientific community.
What does all this mean? If I was living in a coastal community within, say, 40 feet of sea level, I’d be worried. It is well-known that if there is a god, he/she despises poor people, and, as always, poor people around the globe will be most negatively affected by the immediate effects of global warming. Even though the current global warming trend is most likely caused by increased CO2 emissions from Industrialized Nations, it will be the non-industrialized nations that will be most heavily affected by the associated climate shift. Life is simply not fair.
