Now what?

Droughts could boost global warming: scientists. 16/07/2006. ABC News Online:

By environment reporter Sarah Clarke

It appears global warming may not only be causing more severe droughts but the droughts could be exacerbating global warming.

Australian scientists have found that drought-affected forests do not absorb carbon dioxide as efficiently as they would under normal climatic conditions, meaning more greenhouse gases may be left in the atmosphere."

Pete's Points:

I guess that this could explain a lot.

It seems that we are in a giant bio-feedback loop!

The more we pollute the more we choke on the results. No wonder the "big fellas" at the G8 conference are all for exploring new energy sources.

Too little too late in my view.

Anything that the "big fellas" try and do now will take decades to come into being. Given the time frames that may not be good enough especially if they want to get into nuclear energy instead of fossil fuel based energy. Unless they have a secret way of doing cold fusion (as distinct from fission) the "solution" of using nuclear energy will actually produce more greenhouse gases just to turn the uranium into fuel!