This is well sorth watching, it is 3 years old, so changing climate has moved on during this time. News - Climate change: Worries over CO2 emissions from intensifying wildfires [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-46212844 This artical is on the bbc news site this morning]], things have alreasy gone past the point where we could/should have intervened, if it was seriously tacked 20, 30, 40 years ago when the issues first came to light we may have had a chance to change the course that is now running away.
My understanding of the most likley route that things will take is global weirding (acceleration in frequency and intencity of storms, droughts, freezing conditions, ice storms, hurricans in the north, cyclones in the south, land/mud slides, flooding and wild fires pumping more co2 into the atmosphere), will happen due to global warming, the salinity of the gulf stream will change, due to cool fresh water from the ice cap melt. The gulf stream is what keeps our island in the temparate zone. That cold fresh water dump will slow the gulf stream to a stop. Due to the interconectivity of our ocean currents and weather system it is likely tgat the northern hemisphere will be plunged into coldness and it could trigger an ice age.
Now that is one tiny bit of the Earth, the rest of the planet has other sensitive bio feed back systems between oceans and weather similar to the gulf stream. Each system is a small part of bigger systems.
All we can do now is try to make sure that we dont add to what is already happening in this runaway global change.
Our news agencies are not reporting properly, they report the absolute minimum as it could cause panic. Other countries such as China and India although they are in the process of industrialisation (similar to our industral revolution to 50 years ago) and are contributors to this global issue, they are not censoring it in the way our govenment is. They are looking for guidance and practical solutions in a much more open way. Climate change is on their lips much more than us in the uk.
The only way to reduce the impact and intensity of what is going to happen will be for each and every human on this planet to stop. Stop doing anything that is detrimental to our environment. This at this point in time simply will not happen.
All those that use non-biodegardable nappies, all those that eat lots of palm oil products, buy plastic clothing, buy plastic items, plastic wraped food, anything that is made from or uses fossil fuels. Which today means pretty much every fucking thing. Big families, infact even if we only reproduce ourselves number wise and keep the global population at 7B we are still too many. The population during Queen Victoria was 1B. Sobering.