'Royal Society vice-president Sir David Read said: "People should not be misled by those that exploit the complexity of the issue, seeking to distort the science and deny the seriousness of the potential consequences of climate change.
"The science very clearly points towards the need for us all - nations, businesses and individuals - to do as much as possible, as soon as possible to avoid the worst consequences of a changing climate."'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6263690.stm
Its such a curious hubris- large numbers of scientists seem to view us, human beings, as the primary motor of the planet. Is it possible that us ordinary grunts have a more realistic perspective on our overall influence?
I know that over the last 65 million years the earths climate has gone through many many contortions, sometimes violently hot, sometimes (especially recently in geologic terms) frigidly cold. Many factors came into play- desertification from animals destroying vegetation, the varying proximity of the earth to the sun, changing amounts of heat coming from the sun itself, movement of tectonic plates affecting ocean currents, land bridges disappearing and new ocean currents emerging. None of that is going to stop happening. None of the potential factors that affect climate are going to hold off because the Royal Society has decreed that man is now in charge of the earths climate. This most obvious of points was made many hundreds of years ago by Englands Danish King Canute.
Sadly, scientists who spend all their time obsessively poring over the data can miss the big obvious things quite easily. Even if man kills all his farting pigs, switches off his brown-coal power stations, locks the garage door for ever and never hefts another chainsaw, the worlds weather systems and climate will carry on mutating and occasionally going completely haywire. Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.
***** Update *****
http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/page.asp?id=6229&gclid=CJzIl5r3io0CFQrilAodIEyUjg
If nothing before gave you cause to doubt the official line, check out this pathetic attempt at rebutting the evidence proffered in "The Great Global Warming Swindle". Each of the 'Misleading Argument' pages, if read carefully, fails to rebut the arguments. This one in particular made me laugh out loud- Misleading argument 5: ’Global warming computer models which predict the future climate are unreliable’ they note 'It is important to note that computer models cannot exactly predict the future, since there are so many unknowns concerning what might happen.' You couldn't make it up!
No comments:
Post a Comment