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Posted By: Cliff Popehas "emergency" been devalued and now just means "fairly important - do what you can"?There is no official international emergency. Greta & friends did file a petition with the UN last week to declare one, but I've heard nothing since.
Posted By: djhblah blah blah
Posted By: Mike1There is no official international emergency. Greta & friends did file a petition with the UN last week to declare one, but I've heard nothing since.
Posted By: Cliff PopeWe are supposed to be in an emergency, but I don't see anyone taking any emergency measures.
Posted By: SimonDIt's interesting that there is not a genuine consensus within climate science that we are in a climate emergency
Posted By: djhPosted By: SimonDIt's interesting that there is not a genuine consensus within climate science that we are in a climate emergency
Would you like to explain or justify that claim some?
Posted By: SimonDHowever, there are numerous climate scientists still making representations to bodies like the UN questioning the notion of the climate emergency, which is fairly easy to verify. Here is one example from 2019 which is unfortunately lacking in better detail. However, it is an illustration (https://clintel.nl/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/ecd-letter-to-un.pdf, https://clintel.nl/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/ED-brochureversieNWA4.pdf)
Like I said before. For me the field is largely looking in the wrong direction as I think it far more important and urgent to curb our unsustainable use of natural resources and destructive behaviour towards natural ecosystems rather than carbon emissions which actually hides the most significant and difficult problems we face in terms of the climate and our environment.
Posted By: fostertom"The Australian political leader also contended Sharma had displayed a double standard. āHe wants to shut down our coal industry but he never talked about shutting down the oilfields in the North Sea, Brent oil, you know he doesnāt want to shut that down.ā
He has a point.
āHe wants to shut down industries in other peopleās countries, not in his country.ā
Posted By: SimonDfar more important and urgent to curb our unsustainable use of natural resources and destructive behaviour towards natural ecosystems rather than carbon emissionsInteresting, just to check - do you feel that doing the former wholeheartedly would automatically tend to solve the latter?
Posted By: WillInAberdeenFrom Simon's link:
"Enriching the atmosphere with CO2 is beneficial...
CO2 is not a pollutant"
That's a fairly minority viewpoint these days....!
Posted By: djhA quick google for 'climate emergency scientific evidence' gives three top hits:
https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/71/9/894/6325731
https://www.nytimes.com/article/climate-change-global-warming-faq.html
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/19/case-closed-999-of-scientists-agree-climate-emergency-caused-by-humans
any one of which seems more convincing to me than what you have shown so far.
Posted By: djhwho seems like a typical upper class tw*t
Posted By: djhbut the people who are paid to try to solve it seem to have the same problem.
Posted By: bhommelsPosted By: WillInAberdeenFrom Simon's link:
"Enriching the atmosphere with CO2 is beneficial...
CO2 is not a pollutant"
That's a fairly minority viewpoint these days....!
I would not have expected anything else from clintel.nl. The founders are Shell man Berkhout and controversial journo Marcel Crok. Better check all their claims on skeptcalscience.com, which is a much better place to look for resources on climate change anyway.
Posted By: fostertomPosted By: SimonDfar more important and urgent to curb our unsustainable use of natural resources and destructive behaviour towards natural ecosystems rather than carbon emissionsInteresting, just to check - do you feel that doing the former wholeheartedly would automatically tend to solve the latter?
Posted By: fostertomV gd Dave.
Did I mention before - strongly recommend
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ministry-Future-Kim-Stanley-Robinson/dp/0356508862/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1EOQVDJ2HTL4H&keywords=ministry+for+the+future&qid=1637138385&sprefix=ministry+for%2Caps%2C804&sr=8-1" rel="nofollow" >https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ministry-Future-Kim-Stanley-Robinson/dp/0356508862/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1EOQVDJ2HTL4H&keywords=ministry+for+the+future&qid=1637138385&sprefix=ministry+for%2Caps%2C804&sr=8-1
which is an entertaining long story as well as an extraordinary amount of scientific explanation woven in - brand-new, bang up to date, about how the next 50yrs may play out, ultimately with wide-ranging success for humanity, life and the planet.
Posted By: fostertomIncidentally, in
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dawn-Everything-New-History-Humanity/dp/0241402425/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=dawn+of+everything&qid=1637165747&sr=8-1" rel="nofollow" >https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dawn-Everything-New-History-Humanity/dp/0241402425/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=dawn+of+everything&qid=1637165747&sr=8-1
Posted By: Dominic CooneyCan I just add as a retort to the Amazon links (which of course I appreciate make it easy to identify the exact book that you are talking about) that your local bookshop will usually order in any book for you directly on request, thus avoiding the use of Amazon at all.
There are more than enough billionaires but perhaps not enough local bookshops!http:///newforum/extensions/Vanillacons/smilies/standard/wink.gif" alt="
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