A new study has verified what many smug environmentalists have been warning us about for years: that humans have released so much CO2 into the atmosphere that it'll take hundreds of thousands of years, at least, for the planet to be able to naturally regulate itself again.

The planet had evolved to deal with periodic huge dumps of GHG into the atmosphere, like when a volcano erupts. The plants, rocks and soil all would absorb the excess GHGs, then erode and wash into the ocean. But humans, being those wily creatures that we are, have managed to put CO2 into the air 14,000 times faster than Mother Nature. That's right, fourteen thousand times faster. We're number 1! So, there is nowhere left for those GHGs to go. They'll just be hanging out in the atmosphere, giving us 70 degree weather in January and mocking our pathetic attempts to reduce our emissions.

The only reason there aren't riots right now (well, aside from those involving hunger or political strife) is because anyone who actually follows this stuff probably figures that we'll either 1) adapt, 2) colonize the Moon, or 3) be dead before it really matters. But, has anyone noticed how in the past decade, the data coming out on climate change has constantly corrected previous reports regarding the severity of the warming we are facing, each time saying, "Actually, its worse than we thought."

How much worse can it get? As history has shown, politicians tend not to address important environmental issues until they give you cancer, threaten to wipe out important symbols, or destroy an entire city (except if the city was New Orleans, because that problem really hasn't been addressed). At this point, we're torn between buying a compound in the Adirondacks or moving to Hawaii, getting a case of beer, digging our toes into the sand, and just let nature take its course.