How many times will I receive the “second and final important call” regarding my credit card account before they stop calling me?
My lawn is browning out and it’s only June 1. What’s up? A mild winter here followed by a dry, warm, even hot, spring...and northeast Ohio’s experience is consistent with worldwide data.
“Emissions of heat-trapping carbon dioxide reached an all-time high last year, further reducing the chances that the world can avoid a dangerous rise in global average temperature by 2020...Global emissions of carbon dioxide, or CO2, from fossil fuel combustion hit a record high of 31.6 gigatonnes in 2011...an increase of 2 Gt, or 3.2 percent, from 2010...” (Plain Dealer, May 26, 2012)
Lee Vierding, who “studies environmental change and teaches at the University of Idaho,” writes that very high levels of atmospheric CO2 some 40 or 50 million years ago were cut in half by the rise of Mt. Everest. Took 25 million years to get the job done. If you want to know how that works, read his article in the May 30, 2012 Christian Century.
Will we know when we’ve received that last and final important call about climate change? What if we’ve received it already, and have decided not to respond? Will our salvation have to come from a mountain (again)?
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