Alarmist

I'm reading a great book called The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell.

The author applies the same theories that govern how viruses become pandemics to modern fads and trends. He points that we like to think major things happen slowly, but when you study how small outbreaks quickly become pandemics (as well as how silly little pop culture happenings become worldwide trends in a matter of days) it is scary.

Could something monumentally horrible happen in just a few months or years?

My fear - and I realize I'm an alarmist here (note that I'm acknowledging my own biases) - is that in terms of our climate, we have reached a tipping point. This article suggests that maybe we have.

Maybe - whether global warming is man made or not - the warming of earth (for whatever reason) has been increasing and now we are at the tipping point when major changes will happen quickly.

I really hope I'll look back with my grandkids and laugh about being so paranoid (the way the baby boomers were paranoid over Sputnik and Mother Russia sending nukes our way - remember those old nuclear bomb drills where students hid under their desks or people shelling out money for their own personal bomb shelters).