ah summers back in old newport, blue skies, the occasional fluffy white cloud, people stroll by with their dogs, smiles are exchanged, pleasantries swapped, it's kinda business as usual. yet today something called the stern report was released. the stern report basically was written by lord stern an english economist who was asked by the british govt to write about the economic impact of global warming on planet earth. basically it states that unless we take action now the economic impact will be akin to the depression of the 1930's. the total cost to avoid this is 3.25 trillion AU dollars. and if we do nothing by 2010 it would cost us 9.1 trillion AU dollars. Australia is one of the few countries that refused to sign the kyoto treaty, much to most peoples dismay, and unknown to most people actually negotiated a 9% increase in emmissions, however the rational behind this is that australia supplies so much raw material to china that it actually reduces emmissions to the world if it ceased supplying china with coal. the australian govt has said it would sign a treaty if the whole and developing world signed one as well.
anyway down on the streets people are still smiling.

my take on global warming is big freaking deal, so the temp. is getting hotter, the planet is adapting to our dumb industry, well its a bit arrogent on our part to assume we could get away with it, after all we have only been on the earth for a blink of an eye, more species have become extinct than remain, why do we think we are different. if we were smart we would begin to evolve rapidly, loose the physical form and transport ourselves through space, seeding the universe, finding sexy planets that we can start again, nice places with lakes and pink sunsets and decent weather, and good surf...