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  Reticence paper is good, 5m sea rise likely

  I'm a political news blogger from the environment movement here in Australia:

  www.sydneyalternativemedia.com/blog

  I've been elected to local government then retired, I've worked as a corporate lawyer and dropped out, and a reader analyst of Big Media 2 years, and now community media worker some 10 years now.

  I have a zoology degree from the Australian National University in the 1980ies.

  My professional opinion of James Hansen at NASA is that he is a straight shooter. That he is speaking out to stay sane because knowing big stuff like some kind of exponential sea rise increase based on collapsing ice shelf in West Antarctic and Greenland etc forces a man to either speak up, take action or indeed go mad, take the substance abuse track or get sick and die.

  We have our own official Australian of the Year Professor Tim Flannery who is speaking out on this big time as well. He is making our government very uncomfortable because basically they are eco dunces, have been their whole life. Sceptics shouldn't feel bad or intimidated. I don't know how to fix cars much or do brain surgery either.

  Anthropologists tell us every successful population has expanded beyond its eco limits. We are the same. Not different. The same.

  I've only picked up actively pursuing this issue since about November, more interested natural heritage stuff. But its all converging, not least carbon store of forests standing not trashed.

  My hard won advice to Hansen and his supporters back to modern Rome there
   1. it's a matter of personal honour now whatever the goof ups with power think or do
  

  2. don't internalise this historic momentum to eco unravel after 200 years of the industrial revolution - we are stuck in the tide
     
  3. just tell what you know, do your best no more or less.

  I fully expect that 5 metre sea rise potential as per the PDF paper via link and I'm smart, not stupid, and I wish I was wrong. The reason is people don't believe until they see and CO2 is invisible so it will be too late by then.On An interview with renowned climate scientist James Hansen posted 2 years, 6 months ago 19 Responses