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Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability is the second in a series of four reports prepared by hundreds of the world's top climate scientists through the IPCC.
The report states that climate change has already affected agriculture, human health, ecosystems, water supplies and some people's livelihoods. The striking feature of the effects, said the report, is that they are occurring from the tropics to the poles, from small islands to large continents, and from the wealthiest countries to the poorest. Report: Effects of climate change seen everywhere
Yep. Global warming has been happening since the end of the last ice age. Global cooling has been happening for 2 million years. And the last 100 years? Who cares.
James Lovelock: environmentalism has become a religion
Environmentalism has "become a religion" and does not pay enough attention to facts, according to James Lovelock.
The 94 year-old scientist, famous for his Gaia hypothesis that Earth is a self-regulating, single organism, also said that he had been too certain about the rate of global warming in his past book, that "it’s just as silly to be a [climate] denier as it is to be a believer” and that fracking and nuclear power should power the UK, not renewable sources such as windfarms.
Speaking to the Guardian for an interview ahead of a landmark UN climate science report on Monday on the impacts of climate change, Lovelock said of the warnings of climate catastrophe in his 2006 book, Revenge of Gaia: "I was a little too certain in that book. You just can’t tell what’s going to happen."
James Lovelock: environmentalism has become a religion
Environmentalism has "become a religion" and does not pay enough attention to facts, according to James Lovelock.
The 94 year-old scientist, famous for his Gaia hypothesis that Earth is a self-regulating, single organism, also said that he had been too certain about the rate of global warming in his past book, that "it’s just as silly to be a [climate] denier as it is to be a believer” and that fracking and nuclear power should power the UK, not renewable sources such as windfarms.
Speaking to the Guardian for an interview ahead of a landmark UN climate science report on Monday on the impacts of climate change, Lovelock said of the warnings of climate catastrophe in his 2006 book, Revenge of Gaia: "I was a little too certain in that book. You just can’t tell what’s going to happen."
Sorry, but this just the opinion of a 94 year old who is waffling. Climate science is not a religion, as it is based on evidence....Climate change denial is a better fit if we are going to compare to religion, as it constantly makes baseless assertions with no evidence at all....It reminds me of the way fundamentalists operate.
I think I'll take the evidence reported by the scientists actually working on the issue over one old chemist who can't make up his mind.
Environmental guru Dr James Lovelock has said that worsening climate change will force fundamental changes in the way we live, with people clustering together "like insects" in vast super-cities. James Lovelock's Climate Change Solution: Lets Live Like Insects
Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability is the second in a series of four reports prepared by hundreds of the world's top climate scientists through the IPCC.
The report states that climate change has already affected agriculture, human health, ecosystems, water supplies and some people's livelihoods. The striking feature of the effects, said the report, is that they are occurring from the tropics to the poles, from small islands to large continents, and from the wealthiest countries to the poorest. Report: Effects of climate change seen everywhere
Yeah, I saw that on the news today. It also said we're woefully unprepared to adapt.
Instead of adapting, many are still denying.
Yes, the American right...I'm looking at you.
I'm sorry old friend, but in what sense is this the most comprehensive CC report ever produced? I've read it, at least the parts that were released thus far, and it seemed pretty light on the details to me.
I also don't like the change from "Global Warming" to "Climate Change." The new name suggests an unfalsifiable hypothesis, which is verboten in most other scientific endeavors. For example, what evidence would I have to bring forward to prove the climate hasn't changed any more or less than it normally does? Like ID, claims that aren't falsifiable usually aren't considered scientific claims.
At least with "Global Warming" it suggested a hypothesis that one could either prove or disprove. "Change" is so ambigious it doesn't subject itself to scrutiny.
I also don't like that they have abandoned the time honored tradition of reporting only findings that we have high confidence in. Although, I guess sense it's a meta-analysis it's not that big of a deal.
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