Time...

- is short:

Turns out I have even less time for LJ than I thought I would have this week, sorry!

But in the time you've saved because you didn't have to read my blather, you could go and take a minute to tell your member of the European Parliament to act on climate change, with this handy website that does most of the work for you.

BBC's "Climate Wars", part 2, legally viewable online

Even if you don't care about the topic at all, this is worth it just for the truly *spectacular* accent of the presenter... *g*

It's also a good show to watch for people who feel that Global Warming may not be such a big threat after all, that it's all hopelessly exaggerated, that there are major scientific doubts about it, etc. - because this ep focuses on rebutting common claims of that type.

More responses to common sceptical arguments can be found here, BTW.

Curiosity: Risk Perception

A poll! (Forgive the somewhat awkward phrasing of some of the options; it's pretty much off the cuff - I don't have a lot of time today; but I've been curious about this for a while, so today I've decided to finally ask.)

Feel free to reply anonymously.

Question: Which of these statements best describes your perception of the risks of climate change?

A. "I think nothing serious will happen at all."

B. "I don't think anything particularly serious will happen within the next seventy or so years; the processes of climate change are much slower than that."

C. "I think there will be slow but noticeable, yet overall moderate changes for the worse in many areas, over the next several decades, but society will adapt."

D. "I think there will be severe changes for the worse in many areas, but the changes will still be slow enough for society to adapt."

E. "I think there will be huge disasters (famines, natural catastrophes etc.) in the developing world, but the 'developed' world will probably be more or less all right, unfair though that may be."

F. "I think there will be huge impacts in *all* countries around the world, and societies - including ours - will have to change radically."

G. "I think there is an actual, real possibility that 'civilisation as we know it' will collapse within the next 150 years. (But humans will survive.)"

H. "I think there is an actual, real possibility that 'civilisation as we know it' will collapse within the next 70 years. (But humans will survive.)"

I. "I think there is an actual, real possibility that all complex life on Earth may go extinct within the next 200 years."

It's embarrassing, isn't it?

To watch someone you used to know as an at least *marginally* sane person (for a value of 'sane' that includes permanent fannish obsession, of course) fall ever deeper into crazy tinhattery?