It's time we stopped saying 'climate change' and started addressing the disaster

The Guardian by George Monbiot | Mar. 12, 2009 (News Analysis)
What's clear from Copenhagen is that policymakers have fallen behind the scientists: global warming is already catastrophic

Apart from the sheer animal panic I felt on reading these reports, two things jumped out at me. The first is that governments are relying on IPCC assessments that are years out of date even before they are published, as a result of the IPCC's extremely careful and laborious review and consensus process. This lends its reports great scientific weight, but it also means that the politicians using them as a guide to the cuts in greenhouse gases required are ... Full Story »

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Subjects: World, Politics, Sci/Tech
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Edited by: Dwight Rousu - Mar 15, 2009 - 4:26 PM PDT
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 by Dwight Rousu - Mar. 15, 2009

Monbiot summarizes his reaction the latest information on climate breakdown.

we have to stop calling it climate change. Using “climate change” to describe events like this, with their devastating implications for global food security, ... More »

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 by Tanya J. Maurer - Mar. 16, 2009
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Gerald Zuckier
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 by Gerald Zuckier - Mar. 16, 2009

Succinct, yet packs a solid punch.

When scientists, who are trained to be conservative in their claims, are compromised with pundits, lawyers, and other hired mouthpieces who are trained to demand everything and give no quarter, the results are predictable. See the collapse of the Canadian fisheries, where the Canadian government split the difference between the positions of the scientists and the fishing i industry.

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