Global Warming

[poliphilo]

Are these summer storms anything to do with global warming?

I don't suppose anyone can be sure. These are early days and the only way we can know that things are changing is if the bad stuff keeps piling up year after year.

But according to one article I read recently, most of the relevant scientists take the line that global warming is happening and it's too late to do anything about it.

Cutting down carbon emissions- all that righteous stuff- won't change a thing.

Instead we have to start adapting- to climate change, new weather patterns, altered coastlines.

Comments

[qatsi.livejournal.com]

Cutting down carbon emissions- all that righteous stuff- won't change a thing
Well, it stops things from getting any worse than we have already made them. But you're right, no individual event could be pinned on global warming, and we're going to have to make some changes to accommodate climate change rather than only trying to prevent it.

There was an interesting interview with some American on Channel 4 News last week. He insisted that "all of the hurricane experts" said that the rise in intensity of hurricanes was part of a 60-year cycle and not down to global warming; whereas a British "climate change expert" said that there was a cycle, but it now had a higher baseline due to climate change.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I suspect that the most we could achieve at this point is to slow things down.

But we're not going to, are we? Not when it's more convenient and profitable to carry on regardless.

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

Google on "the Gaia hypothesis," if you're not already familiar with it. The thesis is that Mother Earth knows how to take care of herself.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Ah yes,

I read Lovelock's book when it first came out- which means that my grasp of his theory is a bit rusty now- but, yes, Mother Earth will adjust to what we do to her and if we fail to adjust to her adjustments then more fool us.

[philtration.livejournal.com]

A reporter from a national news program in New York asked a meteorologist why we were having so many hurricanes recently. His response? "Because it is hurricane season" I almost spit out my beer from laughing!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Ask a silly question....