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These pages often focus on how the eurozone crisis will play out. Yet within a decade, this crisis will resolve itself one way or another. Meanwhile, the more important climate crisis gathers momentum with hardly a word on where it will lead. This is partly because climate change has slipped from the public agenda. But there is also, we suspect, a concern that climate is too contentious and complex a topic for a non-expert commentator to tackle. There may also be a fear that any honest appraisal of the possible course of events risks the charge of alarmism.
In our view, the first is not the case and the second is a poor excuse...
High quality global journalism requires investment. Please share this article with others using the link below, do not cut & paste the article. See our Ts&Cs and Copyright Policy for more detail. Email [email protected] to buy additional rights. The risks of climate disaster demand straight talking - FT.com
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...The evidence suggests that humanity is locked into a course that it has limited capacity or appetite to alter. Modern economies are built on fossil-fuelled growth. Changing this model materially and quickly has proved to be untenable in the absence of a disaster. Business-as-usual emissions growth is the consequence. This may well produce a disaster that we will be powerless to redress.
Those with a more optimistic view of human behaviour or of the impact of new technologies and practices may see better prospects of meaningful action to prevent such a disaster. They must be encouraged. Yet we must also prepare for the challenging times ahead. The Science Museum in London plans to create a forum for the public to discuss the issues with leading climate scientists. Such efforts are essential. We must begin to discuss the risks and impacts of a climate disaster, since our institutions and processes appear incapable of preventing it.
The writers are respectively a trustee of Londons Science Museum and chairman of the UKs national mathematics research institute at Cambridge, and a professor of climate science at University College London.
I'm projecting nothing.
And what relevence are projecting into this proffer?
the crazies on the right dont like science
Why am I not surprised by this ultra-elitist arrogance ????
""our limitations and potential are regulated by the capabilities of the least among us. """
All hail Trakar..
How could we follow anyone without a giant ego and no humility??
Why am I not surprised by this ultra-elitist arrogance ????
because you wake up to yourself everyday?
""our limitations and potential are regulated by the capabilities of the least among us. """
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link.
All hail Trakar..
How could we follow anyone without a giant ego and no humility??
I'm sure, for you, and several others here, this may be true.
But, I am not trying to lead anyone, its enough work just trying to chart and follow my own daily course.
I don't require anyone to tend after me, and I certainly don't have the desire to raise anymore children.
The risks of climate disaster demand straight talking
The risks of climate disaster demand straight talking - FT.com
By Howard Covington and Chris Rapley
These pages often focus on how the eurozone crisis will play out. Yet within a decade, this crisis will resolve itself one way or another. Meanwhile, the more important climate crisis gathers momentum with hardly a word on where it will lead. This is partly because climate change has slipped from the public agenda. But there is also, we suspect, a concern that climate is too contentious and complex a topic for a non-expert commentator to tackle. There may also be a fear that any honest appraisal of the possible course of events risks the charge of alarmism.
In our view, the first is not the case and the second is a poor excuse...
High quality global journalism requires investment. Please share this article with others using the link below, do not cut & paste the article. See our Ts&Cs and Copyright Policy for more detail. Email [email protected] to buy additional rights. The risks of climate disaster demand straight talking - FT.com
(massive snip of material that deserves to be read)
...The evidence suggests that humanity is locked into a course that it has limited capacity or appetite to alter. Modern economies are built on fossil-fuelled growth. Changing this model materially and quickly has proved to be untenable in the absence of a disaster. Business-as-usual emissions growth is the consequence. This may well produce a disaster that we will be powerless to redress.
Those with a more optimistic view of human behaviour or of the impact of new technologies and practices may see better prospects of meaningful action to prevent such a disaster. They must be encouraged. Yet we must also prepare for the challenging times ahead. The Science Museum in London plans to create a forum for the public to discuss the issues with leading climate scientists. Such efforts are essential. We must begin to discuss the risks and impacts of a climate disaster, since our institutions and processes appear incapable of preventing it.
The writers are respectively a trustee of Londons Science Museum and chairman of the UKs national mathematics research institute at Cambridge, and a professor of climate science at University College London.
our limitations and potential are regulated by the capabilities of the least among us.
What evidence?
the crazies on the right dont like science
What evidence?
Climate Change: Evidence
Global Warming Frequently Asked Questions
AAAS - Global Climate-Change Resources
America's Climate Choices »
AGU Responds to Op-ed
The new IPCC report should be out next year but AR4 is valid if a bit dated.
more available, for those who have an interest.
Sure it is, if you don't give a shit about standards. Well that describes the cult of AGW so yes to the clueless and the unethical, AR4 is valid.
