The Copenhagen Climate Conference is finally on, and with the people that need to be there Being There.
I hope their talks get somewhere fast.
While the delegates exchange political niceties and sit stone-faced across from each other, worrying about their respective governments and their own Mega Futures, there is an iceberg twice the size of Hong Kong speeding towards Australia.
This B171B iceberg, 87 square miles and weighing 200 billion tonnes, isn't the first to encroach on New Zealand and Australia's seas. The news about the icy goliaths have been on heavy rotation in Taiwan's media recently, but there has been an influx of icebergs nearing New Zealand since 2006. There is a flotilla of them, by the hundreds, making the seas more dangerous, especially wth the business of containers shipping still fastly growing.
Some people think this has nothing to do with "global warming", but is an effect of "Changing Weather Patterns".
That is just a new name for global warming, because "global warming" is now so blatantly obvious that it is becoming taboo. It just isn't politically sound to defer to it.
Changing weather patterns, is it? The increase in carbon dioxide levels in the air from our blind industrialisation and globalisation have nothing to do with the hot weather we're having then? The topic has been in the air (ignored) for at least 30 years, and now, when it matters, it seems so passé to admit to human error.
A traveling oil tanker the width of six lanes of open freeway and 300 metres long takes 2.4 kilometres or 1.5 miles to come to a complete stop. I wonder how people will stop the traveling icebergs, the rise in sea levels, and the melting icecaps.
