And we thought perhaps the cows were responsible?

So suddenly now, we’re all aware of Global warming.

Friday was kind of a watershed day as the media machine was awash in detailed examinations of the findings of hundreds of the world's scientists, who collectively determined that global warming is probably 90% the responsibility of humans ( we blame the other ten percent on the cows and other barnyard animals).

It’s a report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that should sway even the most hard line of doubters that we’ve made a mess and now we need to work hard and work fast to try to clean it up.

From the CBC to the BBC and Al Jazeera to Fox, on the pages of the New York Times to USA Today and from Toronto to Tehran, the topic of Global warming was presented Friday with grim predictions for our future should we not take heed.

There wasn’t really much new in the report, just confirmation that we’re on a bad road and should change our ways soon, before we travel to much further into the abyss.

Gwyn Dyer reflected on how we didn’t listen twenty eight years ago, when the warnings were first raised that society was fouling its own nest, he asks in this article if we’re ready to listen now and as he puts it “how we must now survive the short run if we hope to see the long run.”

It’s a good question, one has to hope that humans as set in our ways as we are, can begin to take a more proactive approach to our own affairs. We after all, have the most to lose!