The non-existant hurricane season this year is due to the fact Earth has gotten to be very hot. A dramatic example of this is the year 1956. If one is able to stop the timeline of the drought DVD and then look at the hurricane maps from UNISYS (click here) you'll find a short and mild hurricane season. A direct correlation can be drawn between mild hurricane seasons and drought.
It would be easy to try to pass this hurricane season off as something to ignore without being accountable for the realization that Earth is continually heating and we are contributing through our consumerism and negligence. This cannot continue and have a sustainable Earth where agriculture is not under attack and water supplies are becoming more precious than breathable air.
The ozone layer over Antarctica is at a record size this year. As a result there is a large heat movement toward that 'hole' and Antarctica is melting. Even the far reaches of the 3 mile Blue Ice is receiving significant heat due to the hot air mass under the Ozone Hole. We have a lot to be worried about and time is not on our side. There is a tipping point coming in only about 7 to 8 years. We need to address climate change now and begin to scale back human impact on Earth. There has never been this many people on Earth before and it grows every year. Countries with the largest populations such as China are practicing population growth models to bring their growth under control. India is not such a country and while they and China are growing in consumerism they are also not growing good environmental habits. The USA under decades of Republican leadership has done everything possible to thwart advancements in science that would bring consumerism into a benign rhelm.
If one looks at the timeline of consumer invention, it is notable that the issues of transportation has surrounded the burning of fossil fuels while other forms of energy have been virtually nonexistant in recognition of their virtue or economy to a sustainable Earth. That is due to gross mismanagement of federal policy to provide movement toward better and safer energy sources. It is negligent. As a nation we have not at all disciplined ourselves to protect Earth for future generations and in doing so we have not provided for their environmental safety.
While ideas of cutting allowable emissions of Greenhouse Gases from auto exhaust is necessary, we also have to address the smokestakes, and modes of mass transportation by which we move our economy. We are a moral people without moral leadership. We have to demand better of our leaders and higher expectations for the protections of Earth's climate and water supply. We owe that to the people who have not benefitted from a life on Earth. As a people we are very selfish and not at all vigilant to the needs of those yet to inherit the freedom passed down to us just a couple hundred years ago. It is amazing to realize there were people on this continent that stood unafraid against an authority to forge a nation. A democracy. Freedom. They did that so we could have it better than any other generation ahead of us and we have squandered that legacy when it comes to protecting Earth from demise. We need to reach back and find the strength to demand change and now. Time is not on our side. Ice becomes water all to easily and while Antartica seems to have huge reserves of ice, it does not have the resilience of the bad habits of over 6 billion people currently living on Earth.
We can do this. We can move mountains and make a change and now is the time.
Thank you for your interest.
