{"id":1551,"date":"2007-06-30T02:47:28","date_gmt":"2007-06-30T00:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.greenmedia.md\/?p=1551"},"modified":"2007-06-30T02:47:28","modified_gmt":"2007-06-30T00:47:28","slug":"letter-from-tallberg-we-are-about-to-leave-the-holocene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/letter-from-tallberg-we-are-about-to-leave-the-holocene.html","title":{"rendered":"Letter from T\u00e4llberg: We are about to leave the Holocene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>   <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldchanging.com\/archives\/006967.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.worldchanging.com\/postimages\/toparticle\/6967_toparticlephoto.jpg\" alt=\"Article Photo\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Here at the T\u00e4llberg Forum, both daylight and heady discussion about sustainability and global understanding seem to go on around the clock, but the show-stealer so far was the panel on climate change. &#8220;Rogue&#8221; NASA scientist James Hansen lead the panel off with a grim pronouncement, saying that there looms a &#8220;huge gap&#8221; between what is understood (by scientists) about global warming and what is known by the public. In short, Hansen says, the climate crisis is a far more dire and present danger than most of us like to think. &#8220;We are closer to a level of dangerous, human-made interference with the climate than we realize. &#8230; We are about to leave the Holocene&#8221; Hansen is particularly concerned about the timeframe within which we must act. There is increasing evidence that we are rapidly approaching a series of climate tipping points, where feedback loops in the environment (the march of forests pole-wards and melting glaciers and sea ice, meaning the Earth&#8217;s darkening surface retains more of the sun&#8217;s heat; melting tundra releasing increasing amounts of methane as it thaws; etc.) began to contribute to a galloping greenhouse effect brought on by our actions. (For a particularly elegant discussion of&#8230; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldchanging.com\/archives\/006967.html\">more<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>(Posted by <b>Alex Steffen<\/b> in <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldchanging.com\/search\/?category=70&amp;search=Go\">Climate Change<\/a><\/i> at  3:16 AM)<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/worldchanging_fulltext\/~4\/129118205\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here at the T\u00e4llberg Forum, both daylight and heady discussion about sustainability and global understanding seem to go on around the clock, but the show-stealer so far was the panel on climate change. &#8220;Rogue&#8221; NASA scientist James Hansen lead the panel off with a grim pronouncement, saying that there looms a &#8220;huge gap&#8221; between what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}