‘We’re All Sitting Ducks’: Latest U.N. Global Warming Report Paints Dark Picture
Posted by ShrugInArgentina 10 years ago to Science
"After several days of late-night wrangling, more than 100 governments unanimously approved the scientist-written 49-page summary — which is aimed at world political leaders. The summary mentions the word “risk” an average of about 5 1/2 times per page.
“Changes are occurring rapidly and they are sort of building up that risk,” said the overall lead author of the report, Chris Field of the Carnegie Institution for Science in California.
These risks are both big and small, according to the report. They are now and in the future. They hit farmers and big cities. Some places will have too much water, some not enough, including drinking water. Other risks mentioned in the report involve the price and availability of food, and to a lesser and more qualified extent some diseases, financial costs and even world peace."
I was incredulous when I read the words "sort of " in the above quote.
That doesn't sound very scientific to me.
“Changes are occurring rapidly and they are sort of building up that risk,” said the overall lead author of the report, Chris Field of the Carnegie Institution for Science in California.
These risks are both big and small, according to the report. They are now and in the future. They hit farmers and big cities. Some places will have too much water, some not enough, including drinking water. Other risks mentioned in the report involve the price and availability of food, and to a lesser and more qualified extent some diseases, financial costs and even world peace."
I was incredulous when I read the words "sort of " in the above quote.
That doesn't sound very scientific to me.
1. I question the science behind talking about global warming during specific years. I'd have to learn what climate experts think, but I thought you can't tell which effects are climate change and which are just noise. The mean is moving, but there's a large distribution centered around that mean.
2. I don't agree with the dark picture. We'll solve it, thought climate control efforts and/or ways to mitigate the effects.
I wonder if the author realized the implications of her own choice of words.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/
It's a site that deals with the science and has links to other science based resources.
If you want to learn about falsified data there is a tab labelled "Climategate".
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/colum...
And their answer is to turn over control of everything to a bunch of looters who have never produced anything (unless you consider making others miserable as production.)