Climate Change is the Major Problem Facing the World - Attenborough speaks out.

[TurboSmoke]

Interesting story, you have have seen it on BBC news last night.

link..

 

[FoolKiller]

This should probably go in the global warming thread.

At a minimum it will be noticed faster.

 

[Danoff]

I'm glad somebody is speaking out, because so far nobody has been calling attention to this underreported problem.





(just in case you didn't notice, that was sarcastic)

 

[TurboSmoke]

I'm glad somebody is speaking out, because so far nobody has been calling attention to this underreported problem.(just in case you didn't notice, that was sarcastic)

i noticed,

he isnt blaming anyone in particular, just industry as a whole. David Attenborough is an a unique position to be able to see first hand the devastation caused over the past 50 years. He has had an outstanding career and travelled to the worlds most remote places more than anyone i can think of.

 

[Danoff]

Also, I'm not a chemist or a climatologist or a meteorologist; it isn't for me to suddenly stand up and say I have decided the climate is changing. That's not my expertise. The television gives you an unfair and unjustified prominence but just because your face is on the telly doesn't mean you're an expert on meteorology.

But I'm no longer sceptical. Now I do not have any doubt at all.

He got it right the first time. He's not an expert, so he shouldn't be spouting off as if he was.

I think climate change is the major challenge facing the world. I have waited until the proof was conclusive that it was humanity changing the climate. The thing that really convinced me was the graphs connecting the increase of carbon dioxide in the environment and the rise in temperature, with the growth of human population and industrialisation. The coincidence of the curves made it perfectly clear we have left the period of natural climatic oscillation behind and have begun on a steep curve, in terms of temperature rise, beyond anything in terms of increases that we have seen over many thousands of years.

^^ Right here he gives away that he's definitely no expert. The argument he uses can be used to prove that the decline in the pirate population is causing global warming. It's nonsense. It's like he hasn't been shown the charts that show the opposite.

The most dramatic evidence I have seen was New Orleans, after Hurricane Katrina. Was that climate-change induced, out of the ordinary? Certainly so.

That's the most dramatic evidence? Katrina? A hurricane that wasn't really anything special other than the fact that it hit a city whose dissaster strategy was "hope it doesn't hit us"? Yea, I'd say he's not an expert.