Comments on: Climategate or the Fall-out http://lastexiled.com/index.php/2010/02/09/climategate/ residence-in-exile of The Last Amazon Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:53:02 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: John A http://lastexiled.com/index.php/2010/02/09/climategate/comment-page-1/#comment-3697 John A Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:35:19 +0000 http://lastexiled.com/?p=4349#comment-3697 Not glee. Well, OK, perhaps schadenfreude. I never doubted that the Earth has been getting warmer for a while (when was the last the Thames or the East River froze solid?), but the IPCC after all was formed to study human influence on climate amd went from not considering other things (like that bright thing in the sky for part of the day) to denying that there are other influences. Bah. Personally, I largely agree with the suggestions of Professor Bjorn Lomborg - albeit I disagree with his continuing belief that climate change is, as the IPCC says, primarily driven by human actvity. Don't shut down technological civilisation, expand it. Lots cheaper (he estimates about 90 per cent less than the CO2 focus) and more effective. Hey, a nuclear electric plant or water desalinization complex is useful whether [global] temperature goes up or down! Not glee. Well, OK, perhaps schadenfreude. I never doubted that the Earth has been getting warmer for a while (when was the last the Thames or the East River froze solid?), but the IPCC after all was formed to study human influence on climate amd went from not considering other things (like that bright thing in the sky for part of the day) to denying that there are other influences. Bah.

Personally, I largely agree with the suggestions of Professor Bjorn Lomborg – albeit I disagree with his continuing belief that climate change is, as the IPCC says, primarily driven by human actvity. Don’t shut down technological civilisation, expand it. Lots cheaper (he estimates about 90 per cent less than the CO2 focus) and more effective. Hey, a nuclear electric plant or water desalinization complex is useful whether [global] temperature goes up or down!

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