In the last week, Iran has taken another step closer to developing nuclear weapons. It has also repeated its threat to wipe Israel off the map.
The Intellectual Activist discusses what to do about Iran. The link is http://tiadaily.com/php-bin/news/showArticle.php?id=1084 or http://tinyurl.com/plfvw. There is also a link that allows readers to email the article to other people.
Prof Bob Carter (a geologist at James Cook University, Queensland, engaged in paleoclimate research) wrote an excellent piece on Global Warming. The article (There IS a problem with global warming… it stopped in 1998) appeared in the Daily Telegraph on April 9. Rather than quote from the article, I think it best to let it speak for itself.
Also in the Telegraph (Kyoto is pointless, say 60 leading scientists), sixty climate scientists just sent a letter to Stephen Harper, the new Canadian Prime Minister. According to the Telegraph the scientists emphasiced,
"… that the study of global climate change is, in Mr Harper’s own words, an "emerging science" and added: "If, back in the mid 1990s, we knew what we know today about climate, Kyoto would almost certainly not exist, because we would have concluded it was not necessary." Despite claims to the contrary, there is no consensus among climate scientists on the relative importance of the various causes of global climate change, they wrote.
"’Climate change is real’ is a meaningless phrase used repeatedly by activists to convince the public that a climate catastrophe is looming and humanity is the cause. Neither of these fears is justified.
"Global climate changes all the time due to natural causes and the human impact still remains impossible to distinguish from this natural ‘noise’."
Update via the BBC. They have the following program listing:
Overselling Climate Change
Simon Cox reports on how scientists are becoming worried by the quality of research used to back up the most extreme climate predictions.
Every week we are assailed by scare stories about the climate. Malaria in Africa, hurricanes in Florida, even the death of frogs in Latin America – all are being linked to global warming. But does the science behind these claims really stand up, or are the risks of climate change being oversold to win the battle for influence?
I sent my comments on the government’s proposals for the electricity market. I will post them on the Capitalist Solutions site this week.
