Sustainability and Politics: Oceans may pause warming of Earth's surface - Technology & Science

Monday, September 19, 2011

Oceans may pause warming of Earth's surface - Technology & Science - CBC News

Oceans may pause warming of Earth's surface - Technology & Science - CBC News

Consider how fast global average temperatures are rising ( http://www2.ucar.edu/sites/default/files/news/2011/noaa_globaltemp_2010.jpg ) and how extreme weather events are getting so funky...

And one wonders if the multiplicative factors and slow burn changes (like the oceans) will really slingshot things into a world like Dune... and how soon... And how human folly is so pronounced that we'll fiddle like Nero, pretend we can't help or don't care enough to hide our selfish insecurity and sense of unempowerment, or even deny the problem... and dance, dance, dance on this beautiful blue sphere and damn the torpedoes. Still I, and many, will keep trying daily to minimize our carbon footprint until it is zero, and I will also dance, looking around with passion, awe, hopefully merciful compassion, and wonder...

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I've been thinking some about the Winter Solstice, the Mayan end of the 30,000-year-cycle on 12/21/12.

What if in fact the world did end? Even though this probably will not happen, to live consciously it is honest for us to take a bit of an inventory.

Am I happy with how I've lived my life? (Yesterday, I thought mostly yes, with some areas for improvement, as below.) Are there changes I would make?
Would I have tried to forgive those that were hostile or disappointing to me?
Would I spend more time with those I loved the most, telling them that, feeling that more?
Would I be happier, grateful for what I have, what I've experienced, the joy, the beauty in this world?

Maybe the answer is yes to all of the above.
So this time can serve as a point of rebirth for all of us. If we think about it.

Because somewhere along the line I realized I think maybe mankind deserves it. !
The way we are killing each other, killing the planet.
How selfish we are, and snotty to those around us. Petty, competitive. Why is this? Do we have to behave this way? (I say no, it greatly detracts and misdirects energy from the full-time celebration in which we could engage, the great multi-cultural, multi-rhythmic dance we can sustain here.)

Maybe God or the Great Universe is fed up, and will pull the rug out from under us.
Don't think I can say we could blame Him/Her/It.

But it probably won't happen. (Probably not! This time.)

Still we are finite on this ride.

It is a time to think, am I happy with how I've lived my life?
Hopefully most of us can say yes.

For the part of us that have a little worry, a little sadness....
This is the time to be present.
This is the time to be the person you want to be, that can die at peace, that can hope to every day be able to look yourself and the Universe in the eye and say, how beautiful, smiling, and thank you. Let's do that.