U.K. Climate Study Warns of Increased Disaster Risk for Next 200 Years

August 15, 2006

  • August 15, 2006 at 1:54 am
    Notgore says:
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    Appearing before the Commons Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development last year, Carleton University paleoclimatologist Professor Tim Patterson testified, \”There is no meaningful correlation between CO2 levels and Earth\’s temperature over this [geologic] time frame. In fact, when CO2 levels were over ten times higher than they are now, about 450 million years ago, the planet was in the depths of the absolute coldest period in the last half billion years.\” Patterson asked the committee, \”On the basis of this evidence, how could anyone still believe that the recent relatively small increase in CO2 levels would be the major cause of the past century\’s modest warming?\”
    Patterson concluded his testimony by explaining what his research and \”hundreds of other studies\” reveal: on all time scales, there is very good correlation between Earth\’s temperature and natural celestial phenomena such changes in the brightness of the Sun.

    Dr. Dick Morgan, former advisor to the World Meteorological Organization and climatology researcher at University of Exeter, U.K. gives the details, \”There has been some decrease in ice thickness in the Canadian Arctic over the past 30 years but no melt down. The Canadian Ice Service records show that from 1971-1981 there was average, to above average, ice thickness. From 1981-1982 there was a sharp decrease of 15% but there was a quick recovery to average, to slightly above average, values from 1983-1995. A sharp drop of 30% occurred again 1996-1998 and since then there has been a steady increase to reach near normal conditions since 2001.\”

  • August 15, 2006 at 1:57 am
    Al Herb says:
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    The Insurance industry is not a good steward of the environment. They do nothing to PREVENT disasters CAUSED by global warming. They spend billions to clean up the EFFECTS, but won\’t spend pennies to work on the CAUSE. Reason? It\’s too easy to just raise everyone\’s insurance rates. Personal experience: I offered several insurance Giants a prototype-method to reduce, and subsequently, ELIMINATE all (emphasis) GHG from earth\’s atmosphere. It borders on being criminal that these Giants didn\’t even honor my proposal by asking, HOW?

  • August 15, 2006 at 2:03 am
    Notgore says:
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    Yeah, I know the feeling. I figured out a way to cool the sun down by squirting it with a 93m mile hose, and no one will return my calls.



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