Open Letter on Climate Change (*)

Wednesday, October 20th 2010 - 03:53 UTC

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We address this letter to political and business leaders and to the wider public. This year has seen outbreaks of extreme weather in many regions of the world. No-one can say with certainty that events such as the flooding in Pakistan, the unprecedented weather episodes in some parts of the US , the heat-wave and drought in Russia, or the floods and landslides in Northern China, were influenced by climate change. Yet they constitute a stark warning. Extreme weather events will grow in frequency and intensity as the world warms. Read full article

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FernandoFF
World leaders have failed to persuade the citizens of the world on several issues affecting climate change and sustainable development. Is it they themselves aren't quite convinced about the risks we are already facing due to imprudent and abusive practices of Mankind?
Oct 20th, 2010 - 09:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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jerry
Do not give credit (or blame) to men and/or his actions. Mankind has had a minimum effect on the overall earth system, which has been ongoing on its own for about 4.5 billion years. If you are a believer in a god, then this change can be the will of that god; if you believe in science, it is can be attributed to “mother nature”.
Oct 20th, 2010 - 08:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Degge
Don't believe a word of it! Martin Rees is the mouthpiece of the Royal Society, which has just been found guilty of a shocking schoolboy maths mistake, which has caused the RS to claim that CO2 remains in the atmosphere for thousands of years, instead of the widely accepted very small number of years. How humiliating for the UK's top scientific body! Anyway, the real point is that there is no evidence whatsoever that anthropogenic or man-made C02 is responsible for warming or cooling the planet. The list of extreme events cited are natural ones, and there's virtually nothing we can do to stop them.
Oct 21st, 2010 - 12:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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fcar
Anthony Giddens and Martin Rees are a bigger danger to the world as we know it than so called “global warming”. Just my opinion after almost 70 years of hearing these calamitous warnings precipitated by “mankind's greed and stupidity”.
Oct 21st, 2010 - 09:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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