It's Too Late!!

It's Too Late -- so says the alarmingly alarming Newsweek headline.

Hilites:

"The other [factor, i.e., permafrost] is "a monster in the dark," says Stephen Pacala, an environmental scientist at Princeton. As temperatures rise, permafrost, which holds an enormous amount of carbon from long-dead plants, tends to dry out, allowing decay and a release of carbon into the atmosphere. If this phenomenon, called "outgassing," were to kick in, it could inundate the atmosphere with carbon dioxide, perhaps doubling or tripling the effect of the past century of human industry."

Monsters! Outgassing?!! Doubling!!! Tripling!!!! EEYikes!!!!!

Jumpin' jack flash, it's an out-gas gas!

"Nobody knows for sure what might trigger it" (hence the scientific designation of "monster in the dark").

The final sentence: "As politicians negotiate and the rest are rising quickly at the poles, the north polar ice cap is in retreat, permafrost is showing of us feel good about driving hybrids and using fluorescent bulbs, our fate may be riding on an obscure contest between plants and permafrost."

Can you see what is happening here? Global warming is affecting the brains of global warming alarmists, affecting what they write!!!! Now will you deniers get your heads out of the over-heated sand, and up into the clouds with the rest of us where they belong?!

But, never mind --

It's Too Late (with apologies to Carole King)

Stayed in bed all morning to reduce my 'print
There's something wrong here
There can be no denying
Permafrost is melting
Or maybe the plants are dying

And it's too late baby, now it's too late
Though we really did try to brake it
Earth's plants have died and we can't hide
the CO2 -- we can't fake it

It used to be so easy living here with you
You were light and breezy
So low on CO2
Now you look so unhappy
And I feel like a fool

And it's too late baby, now it's too late
Though we really did try to brake it
Earth's plants have died and we can't hide
the CO2 -- we can't fake it

There'll be good times again for me and you
But they won't involve any killer CO2

Don't you feel it too
Still I'm glad for what we had
Making our share of CO2

And it's too late baby, now it's too late
Though we really did try to brake it
Earth's plants have died and we can't hide
the CO2 -- we can't fake it

Don't you know that I...
I just can't brake it
Oh it's too late my baby
Too late my baby
You know
It's too late my baby

And, that's the way the world ends. Not with a bang, but with a CO2-laden whimper.