After hackers leaked e-mails they obtained from University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit, skeptics began referring to them as the "smoking gun" which proves scientists have been working to fudge the data to prove the claim that climate change is largely caused by the actions of man.
However despite the jubilation of the global warming deniers the leaked e-mails really do not discount the reams of evidence gathered by numerous scientific disciplines which point to man's negative impact on earth's environment.
The revelations did not alter the huge body of evidence from a variety of scientific fields that supports the conclusion that modern climate change is caused largely by human activity, (Director of policy and communications at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics, Bob)Ward said.
Prof Bob Watson, the chief scientific advisor at the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said, "Evidence for climate change is irrefutable. The world's leading scientists overwhelmingly agree what we're experiencing is not down to natural variation."
"With this overwhelming scientific body of evidence failing to take action to tackle climate change would be the wrong thing to do – the impacts here in Britain and across the world will worsen and the economic consequences will be catastrophic."
And as the global warming naysayers were taking their ill advised victory lap, it became horribly clear that somebody had failed to alert the polar bears living on the rapidly melting Arctic sea ice that climate change was just a bunch of hooey.
Scientists say shrinking Arctic sea ice may be forcing some polar bears into cannibalizing young cubs.
So far this fall, tour operators and scientists have reported at least four and perhaps up to eight cases of mature males eating cubs and other bears in the population around Churchill, Man. Four cases were reported to Manitoba Conservation; four to Environment Canada.
"That's a very big number," said Stirling, a retired Environment Canada scientist, who has studied the Churchill population for 35 years.
"I worked there well over 30 years and never saw a single case of cannibalism."
I often become very angry at those working to refute the affects, or the cause, of climate change especially when it is revealed that their "research" is funded by the oil companies.
The fact that climate change is real has been something that Alaskans have known for many years. Weather is very important to us, and we cannot miss the changes as they happen.
The unfortunate thing is that many people arguing against the effects of climate change are living in big cities where their climate is controlled artificially while working inside an office or living in apartment buildings. I wonder how long they would continue to deny the evidence if they were living in Barrow, Alaska and their very livelihood and survival depended on the weather conditions? Or if they were fleeing the floods in Africa? Or if they were dealing with a drought in Australia?
The facts are that the planet is going to survive. It has a mechanism for dealing with problems created by its inhabitants, it is called mass extinction. If we don't begin to do something to clean up our mess, the planet will do it for us. And Mother Earth is a harsh disciplinarian indeed.
The first island that was permanently inhabited by humans disappeared below the ocean in 2006. It was a tiny island with a tiny fishing village but it was above water all year round and now it is below water all year round.
ReplyDeleteEntire glaciers that have existed for millennia have disappeared in a matter of a few years.
Those are probably signs that something is decreasing ice on land and increasing water in the oceans.
Let me guess what that something could be.
The global warming deniers have zero credibility. For the entire Bush presidency they denied that there was even any evidence of global warming. They simply refused to acknowledge that it even existed. As the preponderance of evidence made that strategy untenable - and as it began to leak out that Bush was trying to silence findings of government scientists that did not align with his political memes - they began to change strategy.
ReplyDeleteNow they do not deny global warming, they merely deny that its cause is manmade. They now claim that it is a natural cyclical warming and that our industrial filth that we’ve been pumping into the air for nearly 2 centuries has nothing to do with it.
Unfortunately for them, they have the burden of disproving what is still the overwhelming consensus of scientists around the globe who believe - some 97% of them - that global warming is manmade. Somehow, I don’t think that the deniers will be deterred by a lack of factual, scientific data to buttress their case. They will continue ignorantly denying what the world’s experts on the subject have been saying for many years.
Who are we going to listen to? The imbeciles who also believe that President Obama is a secret Kenyan socialist/communist/fascist agent trying to kill grandma and jail those who watch FauxNews? The giant industries whose financial well being are dependent upon maintaining the status quo of pollution and nurturing the “global warming myth” meme? Or, how about believing people who have actually studied and documented what is actually happened and is happening to our planet, those who are not motivated by brainless fear or financial gain?
I vote for listening to the smart people.
It is starting... and there will be no stopping what is to happen.
ReplyDeleteHopefully the animals will re-take over this planet, as they are not the wild beast, we are.
I have heard no mention of the other part of that equation. I don't me mean here, but anywhere.
ReplyDeleteWhere will the seals pup? If they leave the pups on land they will be vulnerable to land preditors that they have not evolutinary protection against. And wo will the adults.