{"id":201,"date":"2011-02-28T09:38:53","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T09:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ariresearch.org\/ru\/?p=201"},"modified":"2015-05-11T09:35:13","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T09:35:13","slug":"climate-the-ball-is-in-our-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ariresearch.org\/ru\/crisis-resolution\/climate-the-ball-is-in-our-court","title":{"rendered":"Climate\u2014the Ball Is in Our Court"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Climate\u2014the\u201cTill now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.\u201d
\n—Dennis Gabor, Inventing the Future<\/em>, 1964<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sea levels are rising, droughts are spreading, winter is colder, summer is hotter, the ice caps are melting, and climate has generally gone out of control. There are Bird flu, swine flu, bees are disappearing, and bugs are consuming entire forests. Indeed, Earth is tilting more and more out of balance. <\/p>\n

President Obama\u2019s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology warned<\/a> that if the U.S. and other countries do not act fast enough to halt the changing climate, changes that scientists refer to as a \u201ctipping point\u201d will occur:<\/p>\n