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Day 23 September, 2008

Bush invokes UN Charter

Bush Junior at today’s UN meet­ing invok­ing, I kid you not, the UN Charter:

The United Nations charter sets forth the equal rights of nations large and small. Russia’s inva­sion of Geor­gia was a viol­a­tion of those words.

Bwahhh… haha! He’s not ser­i­ously sug­gest­ing that UN bol­locks about justice means any­thing these days is he?

The methane tipping point?

A rather unset­tling story from the Inde­pend­ent today:

The first evid­ence that mil­lions of tons of a green­house gas 20 times more potent than car­bon diox­ide is being released into the atmo­sphere from beneath the Arc­tic seabed has been dis­covered by scientists.

The Inde­pend­ent has been passed details of pre­lim­in­ary find­ings sug­gest­ing that massive depos­its of sub-sea meth­ane are bub­bling to the sur­face as the Arc­tic region becomes warmer and its ice retreats.

Under­ground stores of meth­ane are import­ant because sci­ent­ists believe their sud­den release has in the past been respons­ible for rapid increases in global tem­per­at­ures, dra­matic changes to the cli­mate, and even the mass extinc­tion of species.

I find it incred­ible that we’ve allowed ourselves to get to this point while con­tinu­ing to use the same bank­rupt ideas, the same lead­er­ship and the same greed-fueled eco­nomic sys­tem that got us here in the first place.