Life Threatening Danger and Ticking Time Bomb

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Life Threatening Danger and Ticking Time Bomb at http://www.aesopinstitute.org

This may trigger a cataclysm that resulting in the death of most life on earth.

The White House needs to determine if this could be the case on an extremely urgent basis.

If it is, a wartime like program to try to prevent reaching a Tipping Point is necessary.

President Obama needs to provide much improved leadership and everything conceivable to avoid that life threatening possibility.

In Ticking Time Bomb John Atcheson, a government geologist, points out that: There have been two previous such events. One occurred 55 million years ago and the other 251 million years ago. A series of methane burps came close to wiping out all life on earth. In some areas it took more than 100 million years for ecosystems to recover.

There's evidence the worst such self-amplifying feedbacks may already have been triggered. Atmospheric concentrations of methane are the culprit.

The Gulf gusher may add to the problem as a thin oil slick flows across the Atlantic and may be expected to cause a further temperature increase in the Arctic.

Avoiding a Tipping Point may become the challenge for all of us.

Well informed leadership is still lacking.

There is a need for accelerating not merely existing renewables, but also cost-competitive breakthroughs that are presently being born. See Moving Beyond Oil and Running on Water on the Aesop website.

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Folks who are residents of the Gulf states are among those who lent their support to the Republican Party and its drill, baby, drill policy in the last Presidential election.

Here are the facts from 2008:

Texas, McCain 55.5, Obama 43.8;

LOUISIANA, McCain 58.8, Obama 31.9;

Mississippi, McCain 56,4, Obama 42.8;

Alabama, McCain, 60.4, Obama, 38.8;

Florida:  Obama, 50.9, McCain 48.4

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Only when the last tree has died, the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught, will we realize that we cannot eat money. -Cree Proverb