Monday, January 31, 2005
Under-informed, over here
Bob May
Thursday January 27, 2005
Guardian
During the 1990s, parts of the US oil industry funded - through the so-called Global Climate Coalition (GCC) - a lobby of professional sceptics who opposed action to tackle climate change by cutting greenhouse gas emissions. The GCC was 'deactivated' in 2001, once President Bush made it clear he intended to reject the Kyoto protocol. But the denial lobby is still active, and today it arrives in London.
The UK has become a target ...........
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In December, a UK-based group, the Scientific Alliance, teamed up with the George C Marshall Institute, a body headed by the chairman emeritus of the GCC, William O'Keefe, to publish a document with the innocuous title Climate Issues & Questions. It plays up the uncertainties surrounding climate change science, playing down the likely impact that it will have.
It contrasts starkly with the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world's most reliable source of information on the effects of greenhouse gas emissions. In its last major report in 2001, the IPCC adopted an evidence-based approach to climate change and considered uncertainties on impact. It concluded that 'overall, climate change is projected to increase threats to human health, particularly in lower income populations, predominantly within tropical/subtropical countries', and that 'the projected rate and magnitude of warming and sea-level rise can be lessened by reducing greenhouse gas emissions'. More than 2,000 of the world's leading climate experts were involved in compiling the report - the most authoritative scientific assessment to date.....
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Thursday January 27, 2005
Guardian
During the 1990s, parts of the US oil industry funded - through the so-called Global Climate Coalition (GCC) - a lobby of professional sceptics who opposed action to tackle climate change by cutting greenhouse gas emissions. The GCC was 'deactivated' in 2001, once President Bush made it clear he intended to reject the Kyoto protocol. But the denial lobby is still active, and today it arrives in London.
The UK has become a target ...........
.....................
In December, a UK-based group, the Scientific Alliance, teamed up with the George C Marshall Institute, a body headed by the chairman emeritus of the GCC, William O'Keefe, to publish a document with the innocuous title Climate Issues & Questions. It plays up the uncertainties surrounding climate change science, playing down the likely impact that it will have.
It contrasts starkly with the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world's most reliable source of information on the effects of greenhouse gas emissions. In its last major report in 2001, the IPCC adopted an evidence-based approach to climate change and considered uncertainties on impact. It concluded that 'overall, climate change is projected to increase threats to human health, particularly in lower income populations, predominantly within tropical/subtropical countries', and that 'the projected rate and magnitude of warming and sea-level rise can be lessened by reducing greenhouse gas emissions'. More than 2,000 of the world's leading climate experts were involved in compiling the report - the most authoritative scientific assessment to date.....
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