On 400 PPM, Mass Stupidity, and the Suicidal Language of Climate Lemmings

[xchrom]

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/07



OK, lemmings don’t commit mass suicide. But they do reproduce chaotically, and periodically consume their way out of sustainable habitats, and into mass migrations that result in most of their population dying.

Sound familiar? We’re cavalierly headed for our own cliff – 400 parts per million of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere sometime in the next couple of months, if not sooner.

The lemming has a brain the size of a pea. What’s our excuse?

We used to consider 400 ppm to be our Maginot line; the thing we had to avoid at all costs. But it turns out, 400 is too high. And we’ve known this for some time.

[newfie11]

1. I have often thought of the lemmings

And our future. Between climate change,idiots voting repugs in, and folks that have no idea what's happening in this country AND don't vote, yep we are on the lemming march. Probably with the same outcome!

[hunter]

2. I love this art, and I think the artist should be credited...

http://xochicalco.deviantart.com

[Nihil]

3. Excellent comment in that article ...

> Basing our target on what is “politically acceptable” rather than what is
> scientifically necessary makes about as much sense as trying to jump
> the Grand Canyon in ten-foot increments.