Another "alarming" story from "experts" that tells you sod all.
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They say the 2007 UK floods, 2003 heatwave in Europe and recent droughts were consistent with emerging patterns.
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What pattern? tell us what the pattern is then? we had a heatwave 5 years ago and we've had some flooding last year, and this year in fact we've had flooding in different parts of the country virtually every year.
What's next in the pattern? a heat wave next year? I recall the Met Office (one of the "experts" in this report) advising at the start of this year that we'd have heat wave, a "barbecue summer". Well it didn't happen up here, a couple of good weeks a the odd good day nothing out of the ordinary.
What's the pattern?
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evidence for "dangerous, long-term and potentially irreversible climate change" was growing.
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Climate change is irreversible, who are we to think that we can stop a planets climate, that has been in continual flux for millenia?
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Global carbon dioxide levels have continued to rise
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but are still lower then when 30% of the earth was covered in ice and snow in the last ice age?
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"As the inter-governmental panel on climate change stated very clearly in 2007, without substantial reductions in greenhouse gas emissions we can likely, very likely, expect a world of increasing droughts, floods, species loss, rising seas [and] displaced human populations.
"What this statement says very clearly is that some of those things, whilst we can't directly attribute them at the moment to global warming, are beginning to happen."
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I love this quote, there is nothing clear about this quote. I'll try and translate it.
"We have no actual hard evidence that any of the current ecological events are caused by global warming but they are happening"
Yes, and that's from a professor.
Whilst I'm all for cutting pollution, and we should endeavour to reduce emissions whereever possible, we must not put our faith in that cutting emissions will be enough. Unlike our learned friends.
We must start investing in ways to live with climate change, because it is going to change whatever we do.