Headline: Obama left with little time to fix global warming - Part 1

Global warming is a “ticking time bomb that president-elect Barack Obama can’t avoid” says The Associated Press (Dec. 15).

Two points.

First, I wish writers would say ‘climate instability’ rather than ‘global warming.’

Though average global temperatures are still rising when looked at over five year intervals (and the 10 hottest years on record have been reported since 1993) we just can’t fathom the concept when we’re digging our cars out from under another heavy blanket of snow and ice.


Unusual incidents of climate instability and rapid change, however, appear to be everywhere.

Second, the headline could easily have read Obama Left With No Time To Fix Global Warming.

“We’re out of time,” Stanford University biologist Terry Root said. “Things are going extinct.”

“U.S. carbon emissions have increased by 20 per cent since 1992.”

There’s more. Stay tuned.

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Little time or no time? Is there much difference anyway?

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