An Active Participant in Creation from the Illinois River Valley

The Scientific American magazine recently provided some numbers on the climate which are based on real science, data and modeling.  (No political disinformation or technoeconomic paradigm allowed.) One measure of climate change is the forecasted world temperature rise in 2100, compared to pre-industrial times.  When we first discovered that human beings were wrecking the climate by their behavior, the predicted temperature rise in 2100 was 4.3 degrees Celsius.  For us Americans, that is about 8 degrees Fahrenheit.  Most people and countries in the world know that we can do something about that and are working on correcting our climate destroying activities.  Evidence is that the predicted rise in 2100 is now 2.9 degrees Celsius.  The reason that the forecast is better is evidenced by the world's commitment in the Paris Climate Treaty, adopted in 2015.  This means that we are one-third of the way to correcting the harm we have done.  We are headed ...

  This month is the 30 th Conference of the Parties (COP30).   It is encouraging that so many people and so many countries are taking the Earth and Climate Change seriously.   It is also so discouraging that it seems that these efforts have hit a standstill due to the roadblocks of elite and greedy.   It is most frustrating that my own country and its political decay is one of the major evils in the current situation. COP21 brought us the Paris Climate Treaty in 2016.   Pope Francis issued his powerful prophetic statement on our Common Home in Laudato Si in 2015.   Then work on addressing Climate Change ceased from the US government in the Trump administrations of 2016 and 2024.   The lack of leadership by the US does not change the fact that climate change is happening.   The lack of leadership and outright hostility of the rich, powerful and selfish is a roadblock to further movement by the world governments to work together and making the ne...

We have our work cut out for us, if we expect to arrest this trend and give our grandchildren a chance of a reasonable life.  There are a few things to think about with this graph - look back to when you were born - how much has the world temperature increased since then - think about what's ahead - earth systems are beginning to tip and fail - the speed of climate change is increasing - this is hard data - no politicians can spin it for their own selfish gain.