| Nicholas Stern: 'I Got It Wrong on Climate Change – It's Far, Far Worse' |
| HEATHER STEWART and LARRY ELLIOTT - The Guardian/Observer (U.K.) |
| Lord Stern, author of the government-commissioned review on climate change that became the reference work for politicians and green campaigners, now says he underestimated the risks, and should have been more "blunt" about the threat posed to the economy by rising temperatures. In an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Stern, who is now a crossbench peer, said: "Looking back, I underestimated the risks. The planet and the atmosphere seem to be absorbing less carbon than we expected, and emissions are rising pretty strongly. Some of the effects are coming through more quickly than we thought then." The Stern review, published in 2006, pointed to a 75% chance that global temperatures would rise by between two and three degrees above the long-term average; he now believes we are "on track for something like four ". Had he known the way the situation would evolve, he says, ... |
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http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/01/29/leaked-draft-of-u-n-climate-report-suggests-two-decades-of-overestimated-global-warming/
Your denial of climate change is irresponsible and willful ignorance. You lend support to the greed and selfishness of the powers that seek to exploit the people for personal gain. Shame on you.
You have a history of making ridiculous claims based on false statements by others that you haven't confirmed, and often, as here, doing so when they are not even directly related to a post or article.
BTW, I didn't leak the latest IPCC report, don't throw rocks at the messenger.
But "a government-commissioned review", why didn't you say so. That makes it all ok (a 'nothing to see here' moment) from a government intentional in it's wish to control the population. You are naive.
Hillary said just yesterday "When you do these jobs, you have to understand at the very beginning that you can't control everything." [Obviously that is a problem for her.]
President Obama said in the 60 Minutes interview on Sunday "You know, there are transitions and transformations taking place all around the world. We are not going to be able to control every aspect of every transition and transformation. " [Again, he views this as a problem.]
Don't imply that climate change and the "government-commissioned" proposed solutions are not a mechanism of control.
You never bother to learn what you're talking about, in this case science. Whether it's history or poliitics, the same. You just behave like a silly sheep following corrupt people who tell you all sorts of nonsense.
"The politicalizing of science has been a feature of many civilizations, more advanced than ours."
Therefore wee should ignore it.
But why use common sense when your trying save the world from a non existent problem. I'd call that willfull ignorance
1) Announce your conclusion of what the answer is
2) Look at all the available information
3) Accept and promote information that agrees with the conclusion
4) Ignore or disregard any information that disagrees with the conclusion
5) Rationalize why it’s OK to disregard information by attacking those who disagree as being politicized; or having an 8 year old mentality; or being ignorant; or being in denial or…
I gave up trying on another post recently.
The decline of intelligence, which has accelerated in the last 500 years, is represented in the history of contemporary science, which has focused on the physical processes observable to the senses. The knowledge of the relation of nature and the environment which former civilizations understood and had the knowledge to develop arts and sciences to work with has been largely forgotten and lost. The obstacle to the development of science, whether in regard to climate change and the effects of human actions or other fields is clear, but the main obstacle is humanity's ignorance of its place and meaning in the universe.
As the poet Galway Kinnell (b.1927) said, "What troubles me is a sense that so many things lovely and precious in our world seem to be dying out. Perhaps poetry will be the canary in the mine-shaft warning us of what's to come."
"To me, poetry is somebody standing up, so to speak, and saying, with as little concealment as possible, what it is for him or her to be on earth at this moment"
Example, in the 1300 warming period, that brought us the Bubonic Plague, which some scientist also way brought Ebola out of Africa, also had a Castle built in Ireland that had a dock to the ocean on it. That Castle is still a half a mile or so away from the ocean. Therefore we all know that those oceans will rise quite a few more feet higher.
It will get warmer.