Global Climate Change at the Tipping Point

I guess the “global climate change is really happening” message has become part of the conventional wisdom, since it was published in the not-so-liberal Washington Post. Also, the “why-are-they-afraid-of-a-little-transparency” Bush Administration appears to be sitting on James Hansen, director of the Goddard Center for Space Studies, preventing him from speaking about global climate change. I guess the truth hurts.

If you haven’t started doing it already, you might want to be reading less about greenhouse gas emissions and mitigation strategies, and reading more about impacts and how to live with them. I started a resource guide here, which I’ll add to from time to time.

The high temperature was 51 degrees F today, here in southwestern Ohio.

Postscript, January 30, 2006:

This just in from the BBC. Nothing new here – just a re-iteration of the Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change from last February.