Doesn’t really slip off the tongue very well either.

If we’re sober driving, we might kill or hurt people with our driving, just like our pre-industrial 285 ppm CO2 level atmosphere. But a higher level CO2 level atmosphere would make the climate more dangerous, just like a drunk driver over a sober one.

It is lame. (Actually, it’s my attempt at humor.)

How about ‘ we had an acceptable climate, but now we screwed up the one we had because we were greedy and short-cited climate.’

Climate Hell and High Water?

I like it because it hints at the wildly unpredictable nature of the changes we’ll see across the globe. Floods in some areas, droughts in others, etc.

Lacks the man-made element, though.

The Science is unequivocal that natural causes cannot explain most of the recent warming. You need to read the IPCC reports.

Not sure what your question is driving at. As we have known for five decades, as one website put it, “The majority of the terrestrial vegetation of the earth is in the Northern Hemisphere, so more photosynthesis takes place in the spring and summer than in the fall and winter. The carbon dioxide level in the atmosphere begins to fall in the spring, and continues to fall through the summer months, as CO2 is removed by the vegetative cover of the north. In late autumn, at least in northern latitudes, much of this vegetation dies and decomposes, and photosynthetic activity drops to a low level; much of the carbon sequestered over the growing season is then returned to the air as CO2.

I’m curious what you think, why do co2 levels in the atmosphere decrease during the summer months in the arctic?

And while we’re on the topic of language, how has industry gotten away with terming the emissions from the combustion of its products “indirect”…?

Your title in the Greenpeace photo was all over the world that day, from the wire services, even made the front page of the Taipei Times in Taiwan, and in the Chinese-language papers here too.

Since you like hard hitting words and images, I wonder what you think about my polar cities idea and images? Comment via email? Just send to danbloom AT gmail……

http://pcillu101.blogspot.com

To Hell and High Water. You are so right. But you know, I wrongly always thought that phrase “to Hell or High Water”…….mental lapse of mine!