Caitie ([info]caitiedidit) wrote,
@ 2007-12-12 14:23:00
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Surprise, surprise!
When I logged into my e-mail today, I noticed that the top story on AOL was about Arctic sea ice. Scientists have been predicting that summer sea ice in the Arctic would vanish completely aroundabouts 2040. But now NASA scientists are saying it will happen much more quickly, as soon as 2012. Which, you know, is like FIVE YEARS from now.

So that was pretty crazy, but then I remembered that the huge climate summit (the new Kyoto Protocol, basically) is going on in Bali right now, and I thought maybe the scientists were trying to influence whatever was going on there by being as scary as possible. So I headed on over to Google News to see what sort of progress is being made.

Defying all predictions, the United States delegation at the United Nations climate conference in Bali, Indonesia, appears to have successfully blocked agreement on specific emissions-reduction targets so far. Europe and many developing nations have called for cuts of 25 percent to 40 percent by 2020 to avoid the effects of catastrophic warming, but in the face of U.S. opposition, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today that setting specific targets now "may be too ambitious."

HA HA HA HA HA HA. Because if I don't laugh I will cry.

ETA: Why can't aaaall of the other countries/delegates get together and lay down the fothermucking law? Censure us! Sanction us! Do it! Please! TAKE US DOWN! It is for our own good!

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[info]boosette
2007-12-12 08:09 pm UTC (link)
Hells, if they'd place a universal embargo on the US, no goods in or out, we'd pretty much have to buckle.

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[info]caitiedidit
2007-12-12 08:53 pm UTC (link)
I feel like everyone is just waiting to see who takes over for the Bush Administration in 2009. If it's a Democrat, then we'll most likely fall in line with the EU. If it's a Republican with similar views to the Bush Administration, then all bets are off.

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[info]boosette
2007-12-12 10:28 pm UTC (link)
If it's a Republican with similar views to the Bush Administration, then all bets are off.

Oh god don't say that. The R-word is bad and needs to be smote from the english language, along with people who fit the definition of the R-word.

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[info]caitiedidit
2007-12-12 10:45 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, it is pretty inconceivable to me that we could possibly have another Republican president. But then I was adorably 100% confident that Bush would be ousted in 2004, so do not listen to me.

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[info]boosette
2007-12-12 10:50 pm UTC (link)
He would have been, if he hadn't turned 9/11 into one great big tragic fear-mongering photo-op.

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[info]thermopylae_h
2007-12-12 08:36 pm UTC (link)
I'M CONFUSED. Why are we fighting a war to promote democracy and freedom and stop terrorism or whatever we're fighting for when it's painfully, even hilariously obvious the U.S. is trying to Destroy The World via weather?

United Nations, you don't have to encourage the myth of American imperialism, you know.

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[info]hobviously
2007-12-12 08:44 pm UTC (link)
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:(

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[info]caitiedidit
2007-12-12 09:01 pm UTC (link)
You know what's even more discouraging? The comments to that article about the melting ice. Flipping through them was sort of like being kicked in the gut. Sadface, indeed.

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[info]gelxgel
2007-12-12 09:23 pm UTC (link)
oh for the love of...I kind of hate the Bush administration. And wish so hard that they'd let Gore be president. At least then I wouldn't feel like the melting ice caps stuff was all our fault >

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[info]lexy_
2007-12-12 10:38 pm UTC (link)
2012 is also the year the world is supposed to end. :(

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oicrylic
2007-12-13 12:54 am UTC (link)
:-(

We are all going to die before the Sun becomes a supernova and blows us up and before the moon leaves the Earth's gravitational pull!!!!!!

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