Monday, August 11, 2008

Green Scare: "all we can prepare for is extinction"

So now we know who wrote the script for the "Day After Tomorrow."

This guy is in full "Green Scare" mode with his bad disaster movie predictions that have zero, absolutely ZERO, scientific fact thingys behind his claims.

We need to get prepared for four degrees of global warming, Bob Watson told the Guardian last week. At first sight this looks like wise counsel from the climate science adviser to Defra. But the idea that we could adapt to a 4C rise is absurd and dangerous. Global warming on this scale would be a catastrophe that would mean, in the immortal words that Chief Seattle probably never spoke, "the end of living and the beginning of survival" for humankind. Or perhaps the beginning of our extinction.

The collapse of the polar ice caps would become inevitable, bringing long-term sea level rises of 70-80 metres.


The Green Scare people must be a load of fun at parties.

But what are we to do? All our policies to date to tackle global warming have been miserable failures. The Kyoto protocol has created a vast carbon market but done little to reduce emissions. The main effect of the EU's emissions trading scheme has been to transfer about €30bn or more from consumers to Europe's biggest polluters, the power companies. The EU and US foray into biofuels has, at huge cost, increased greenhouse gas emissions and created a world food crisis, causing starvation in many poor countries.


Sounds like people are (is) the problem. Mmmmmmm. People.

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