6 degrees north of reality

There's nothing like a climate scare story to generate headlines.

World temperatures are on course to rise 6C by the end of the century because of global warming, a major British study has forecast.  Emissions of CO2 have increased by almost a third over the last decade and the Earth is gradually losing its ability to absorb the harmful gas, according to scientists. 

"The global trends we are on with CO2 emissions from fossil fuels suggest that we're heading towards 6C of global warming," wept Professor Corinne Le Quere of the University of East Anglia, who led the study.

Now then, this is total nonsense with EVEN the UN's eco-politboro the IPCC forecasts a most likely increase of 3C degrees.

But research grants are not generated by headlines such as "Climate Change quite Mild" - are they?

Comments

[Pete Moore]

Claptrap of course.

Prof. Le Quere's research interests: "The interactions between marine biogeochemistry and climate for time scales going from one to several hundred thousand years; the role of the marine carbon cycle; the role of marine ecosystems for CO2 and climate."

(http://www.uea.ac.uk/env/people/facstaff/lequerec)

As you say, David, research grants are not generated by headlines such as "Climate Change quite mild".

Beware Big Climate.

[Big Ulsterman]

Time to get the bathers on then.

[Allan@Aberdeen]

Here are 450 peer-reviewed papers which 'deny' man-made climate change. So much for the scientific consensus: it's one of the most damnable of damned lies.

http://www.populartechnology.net/2009/10/peer-reviewed-papers-supporting.html

[forex robot]

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