Dec 16 2008
Too Late?
This piece on global warming, from the Guardian, is absolutely nauseating:
Despite the political rhetoric, the scientific warnings, the media headlines and the corporate promises, he would say, carbon emissions were soaring way out of control – far above even the bleak scenarios considered by last year’s report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the Stern review. The battle against dangerous climate change had been lost, and the world needed to prepare for things to get very, very bad.
“As an academic I wanted to be told that it was a very good piece of work and that the conclusions were sound,” Anderson said. “But as a human being I desperately wanted someone to point out a mistake, and to tell me we had got it completely wrong.”
Watson said: “We must alert everybody that at the moment we’re at the very top end of the worst case [emissions] scenario.
It’s a scary time we’re entering, friends. And it’s just sliding downhill…
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