Global warming
I wrote this page in 2012.
As we journey on in 2026, the issue is even more urgent
The most striking evidence
of global warming to my mind is the state of the ice in the
arctic. For comment on the graph see here. Ice on the land is also melting, and in time, this
will flood our coastal cities.
I believe we need to move
power generation and heavy industry into orbit as a matter of
urgency, to reduce pressure on the environment. This will require
easier acess to space than we have at present - see here. This development will also help with the depletion
of earth's resources, such as phosphorous, which looks set to run
out in a few decades' time, but of which there is plenty on the
moon.
My favourite book on global
warming: Mark Lynas, Six Degrees, our
future on a hotter planet: Fourth Estate, London, 2007.
This photo I took in 2004
is of Jokulsarlon in Iceland, where the largest glacier in Europe
meets the sea. One of the staff members there told me that the
glacier was receding by 100 metres a year. "Why is that?"
I asked. "Oh, global warming," she replied. I had never
heard this phrase before. It struck me as a very odd notion, but
I thought at the time, oh well, I expect it will cool down again
in a year or two. Fascinating!