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.