Climate change scepticism is politically motivated, the evidence is all around us. Good science is about dispelling common prejudice, not taking leave of common sense.
Climate change controversy is entirely political
There is little doubt that global warming is happening and happening fast (Abrupt climate change happening, SiS 20) [1]. But the public may have been distracted by the disproportionate attention the mainstream press has been giving to ‘sceptics’ of climate change. Their most recent effort in April 2006 was billed as an open letter signed by “more than 60 leading international climate change experts” [2] and addressed to Canada’s new Conservative Prime Minister praising his commitment to review the Kyoto protocol on reducing emissions.
Climate change sceptics are having a field day in the United States where a powerful anti-science lobby has effectively taken over science policy on a whole range of issues including climate change.
The US Congress asked the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to report on the controversy surrounding the papers published in the late 1990s by climate scientists Michael Mann and colleagues [3] who concluded that the warming in the Northern Hemisphere in the last decades of the 20th century was unprecedented in the past thousand years.
In June 2006, the NAS released a report on the new study [4], concluding that the “recent warmth is unprecedented for at least the last 400 years and potentially the last several millennia”, and “supports the conclusion that human activities are responsible for much of the recent warming.”
I don’t really think they could have concluded otherwise.
(Please continue here: http://www.i-sis.org.uk/GlobalWarming2.php )
Please also see:
Europe Swelters in Heatwave, 21 Dead in France
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/37368/story.htm
Climate change controversy is entirely political
There is little doubt that global warming is happening and happening fast (Abrupt climate change happening, SiS 20) [1]. But the public may have been distracted by the disproportionate attention the mainstream press has been giving to ‘sceptics’ of climate change. Their most recent effort in April 2006 was billed as an open letter signed by “more than 60 leading international climate change experts” [2] and addressed to Canada’s new Conservative Prime Minister praising his commitment to review the Kyoto protocol on reducing emissions.
Climate change sceptics are having a field day in the United States where a powerful anti-science lobby has effectively taken over science policy on a whole range of issues including climate change.
The US Congress asked the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to report on the controversy surrounding the papers published in the late 1990s by climate scientists Michael Mann and colleagues [3] who concluded that the warming in the Northern Hemisphere in the last decades of the 20th century was unprecedented in the past thousand years.
In June 2006, the NAS released a report on the new study [4], concluding that the “recent warmth is unprecedented for at least the last 400 years and potentially the last several millennia”, and “supports the conclusion that human activities are responsible for much of the recent warming.”
I don’t really think they could have concluded otherwise.
(Please continue here: http://www.i-sis.org.uk/GlobalWarming2.php )
Please also see:
Europe Swelters in Heatwave, 21 Dead in France
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/37368/story.htm