More floods, and musings on 6 degrees

Terrible pictures coming out of Cumbria this past 24 hours. The photos of the bridges that got swept away are astonishing. Everyone is referring to this as a 'once in a thousand years' style flood. i.e. pretty unprecedented. Just two years after the last unprecedented floods. I remember then, that we were talking about whether those floods were caused by climate change. There was general agreement that you couldn't point at one event and reach a conclusion based upon it. But what you could do is look for an emerging pattern. I'm sure you can tell what I'm thinking. The evidence is stacking up.

Thing is, we've seen nothing yet. This week, some but not all the UK news papers carried this particular story. Most hid it away inside the paper if they carried it at all. Now, just because the latest study suggests that we may be heading for a 6 degree rise in global temperatures in the next 90 years doesn't mean its going to happen. This is still the worse case scenario. But IT IS POSSIBLE if we stay on the current course. And given that the consequences are SO profound if it does happen (think along the lines of massive sea rise, most of the planet becoming truly unhabitable, massive wars as we scramble for resources and land, and ultimately, the collapse of civilisation.... all possible within a generation), well, shouldn't we be doing everything possible to stop it? Shouldn't it FEEL like more of a priority on every level of society, rather than a political game to quibble over? Shouldn't it demand of us personal sacrifice?