This is the END,the only End, my friend

++10,853 scientists agree that climate change is real and caused by humans. Two do not.

++I have been avoiding writing about the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report because it has expanded the concerns of scientists on what the ultimate impact is of climate change. They have moved from the environment and extreme weather to everything from access to water to extreme poverty.

++Patricia Romero Lankao of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, said,"The polar bear is us."

++Thom Hartmann has been following the climate change debate closely. The debate is not about whether but about how catastrophic. He had Michael Mann, Mr. Hockey Stick on his show, who basically said we had twenty years to adopt policies to slow the planet's warming.

++Yesterday, he had Guy McPherson on via Skype,who matter-of-factly said humans had until 2040 before we go extinct. He said it will be very difficult for humans to find habitats to live in. His basic point that the methane leaking up from the Arctic Ocean alone--as one factor--can raise the temperature 10C above the base number. There have been no humans on the planet at this temperature. In fact there have never been any humans at 31/2 degrees above base line. 

++So that will prove the old maxim--When I die, the earth ends." Even under Mann's conservative scenario by the end of my life we will be at the tipping point. 

++As we see in the debate over the Ukraine--gas and oil policy, our political system can not deal with this issue. There is simply no sense of urgency on climate change. We have a political party and the media who simply refuse to believe it is real. If the Republicans win the Senate in 2014,Darryl Imhof, a climate denier who believes God will not allow this to happen, will be in charge of the Senate Committee overseeing energy policy.

++As George Carlin said," Oh, the planet will be fine,it will cope. It's just humans will disappear."