Remember Good News Friday? Well, there is good enviro news to be found, for those who care to look, but the amount of bad/alarming news is downright overwhelming at times, and deserves its own category. No matter how you or I feel about it. Hence: Bad News Thursday.
In today's "holy bleep" category:
14.6 billion tons of carbon, equivalent to an entire year of global CO2 emissions, will be released from the world's greatest concentration of peat bogs in Sumatra by development for palm oil production by major food corporations such as Nestle, Cargill, and Kraft, according to Greenpeace/Australia.
The Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA) sees CO2 emissions rising 57% by 2030, peaking no sooner than 2020, and leading to substantial temperatures rises of 5 degrees or more by that date. Worse, if China and India continue to develop and grow, powered by coal, temperatures could rise ten degrees by that time.
I can't joke about that in any way; I don't even want to think about it.
