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 Is climate change a real threat?
We'll leave you to judge that for yourselves, but the evidence does seem almost irrefutable.
Ice core analyses show that CO2 concentrations on our planet had been stable for millennia, never rising or falling more than 10 ppm, and fluctuating between 275 and 285 ppm. Now, CO2 concentrations exceed 380 ppm, and are rising at an alarming rate year on year.
We know that the Arctic polar ice cap is shrinking rapidly [by 9% per decade] and that the planet will lose the protection that the ice cap affords in terms of reflecting excess solar energy - see NRDC article.
The Stern report published at the end of Oct 2005 makes for chilling reading - here is a link to the section on how climate change is predicted to affect people around the world. See Stern Report Part II Ch. 3.
The 2007 IPCC report appears to mark the end of the debate as to whether global warming is caused by humans. The conclusion is that it is 90% certain to be so.
Here are just a few things that politicians and leading scientists are saying.
"We have a very brief window of opportunity to deal with climate change ... no longer than a decade, at the most".
Jim Hansen, Leading climatologist, Goddard Institute for Space Studies. [Sept. 2006]
“The 1990s was the warmest decade, and 1998 the warmest year on global record.”
”The Earth is warming faster than at any time in the past 10,000 years.”
”The burning of coal, oil and gas has increased the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere by 30% over natural levels.”
Quotes from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, [IPCC]
"Climate change is a far greater threat to the world than international terrorism"
Sir David King, UK Government's chief scientific adviser.
“We have to accept that cutting domestic emissions is not a responsibility for Government alone. Government can give a lead. We can and will encourage changes in behaviour. In the end, though, cutting greenhouse gas emissions and combating climate change will be a responsibility for every one of us in our daily lives.”
Tony Blair, UK Prime Minister.
"If it were only a few degrees, that would be serious, but we could adapt to it. But the danger is the warming process might be unstable and run away. We could end up like Venus, covered in clouds and with the surface temperature of 400 degrees. It could be too late if we wait until the bad effects of warming become obvious. We need action now to reduce emission of carbon dioxide"
Prof. Stephen Hawking, Physicist.
“Climate change is faster and nastier than we thought ... An abyss is opening up between the speed at which the climate is changing and the speed at which governments are responding.”
Tom Burke, visiting Professor, Imperial College, London.
“Treat the Earth well. It was not given to you by your parents. It was loaned to you by your children.” Kenyan Proverb.
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