Climate Change Again

The IPCC is due to report again shortly and I await  to hear its pronouncements.

The British public are becoming increasingly sceptical about anthropogenic  global warming and climate change. This is because there are reports in the newspapers that atmospheric global warming has slowed down considerably or that it has even stopped despite the fact that this last decade has been the warmest on record.

http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-week/leading-article/9027511/a-climate-glasnost/#comments

The fact is the reverse is true and the planet as a whole is still warming up. The oceans are storing heat at an increasing rate. If you do not believe this then read this paper.

http://www.mdpi.com/2225-1154/1/2/76

Let the deniers prove their case.

I am old enough to know that the seasons have changed and  from my own personal experience on average it feels much warmer now than it did in the 1950s and 1960s. From the latter part of the 20th century spring has been starting earlier and the summers are warmer.

The fact of the matter is that increasing amounts of greenhouses gases in the atmosphere warm up the planet. Science has known this since the middle of the 19th century. The same is true for other planets with Venus being a classic example.

We live on the Earth by pure chance but because we are humans it does not mean that we are immune to the laws of physics - we are not special and no one is watching out for us.


In the UK we have been lucky; the people of Newtok in Alaska have a different story to tell. Their village is being destroyed by rising water levels and climate change.


http://www.npr.org/2013/05/18/185068648/impossible-choice-faces-americas-first-climate-refugees

We need to start action now. What sort of world do we want to leave to our children and grandchildren?