Wil's Rant

There are those who keep insisting that the damage we are seeing from global warming has nothing to do with humans. This despite the fact that every scientist in the world practically has now conceded that we are largely to blame. If in fact this was the case, then we would see evidence of huge extinctions every ten-thousand years or so not every 75 million I should think. That's the evidence our time is going to leave behind. It already has and is. We are suffering huge numbers of extinctions in the past fifty years and these numbers are expected to increase exponentially over the next fifty. Trees everywhere are starting to show severe stress. We see this in Ottawa and have been seeing this decline in health for at least five years. Hopefully the damage is not so severe everywhere but Germany at least is having very bad problems with their trees. The current prediction is for a twenty foot increase in sea level over the next seventy years. I suggest this is very conservative and doesn't fully factor in for exponential increases. It also doesn't take into account a concept that I've discussed before and that is threshold levels. In other words, at what point will our environment reach a level of damage so severe that a domino effect begins. This would cause the exponential rate to go off the scale. People who continue to wage the argument are going to have the point proven to them relatively quickly, I suspect. Their debating the issue at this stage only serves to delay our response, to all our ruin.