Thursday 18 February 2010

IPCC truth

From the Guardian:

"The greenhouse effect was discovered in 1824 by Fourier, the heat trapping properties of CO2 and other gases were first measured by Tyndall in 1859, the climate sensitivity to CO2 was first computed in 1896 by Arrhenius, and by the 1950s the scientific foundations were pretty much understood."

There has been lots of spin articles about small errors in the IPCC reports on climate change...

IPCC is just a reporting organisation, it does not drive subsequent calls for action. It just says, "Boys, the climate is changing, and we have firm evidence of that, be prepared".

Being prepared is the job of governments.

The real issues are where is humanity going forward?

- where do we get our future energy from? Solar, Nuclear, wind...?
- what are we going to do about the exhaustion of the earths resources?
- what are we going to do about population growth?

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