[Vision2020] Warning From Copenhagen: 2500 Participants: 1400Scientific Presentations: Warming Irreversible For a Thousand Years
g. crabtree
jampot at roadrunner.com
Mon Jun 29 07:14:24 PDT 2009
No. My point is that scientists with credentials every bit as worthy as
those of Mr. Moffitts heroes have an alternate view. Is it your suggestion
that reality is created by consensus?
g
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jo Campbell" <philosopher.joe at gmail.com>
To: "g. crabtree" <jampot at roadrunner.com>
Cc: "Ted Moffett" <starbliss at gmail.com>; "Moscow Vision 2020"
<vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Monday, June 29, 2009 6:03 AM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Warning From Copenhagen: 2500 Participants:
1400Scientific Presentations: Warming Irreversible For a Thousand Years
Is the suggestion that the more famous people who believe something,
the likelier it is to be true. Because there are a heck of a lot more
folks in the know who accept global warming.
Joe Campbell
On Jun 28, 2009, at 6:48 PM, "g. crabtree" <jampot at roadrunner.com>
wrote:
> So, what makes Stefan Rahmstorf, "A physicist and oceanographer by
> training," a more credible voice on "the anthropogenic climate crisis"
> then:
>
> Dr. David Bromwich—president of the International Commission on Pol ar
> Meteorology?
>
> or
>
> Prof. Hendrik Tennekes—director of research, Royal Netherlands
> Meteorological Institute?
>
> or
>
> Dr. Christopher Landsea—past chairman of the American Meteorological
> Society's Committee on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones?
>
> or
>
> Dr. Antonino Zichichi—one of the world's foremost physicists, former
> president of the European Physical Society, who discovered nuclear
> antimatter?
>
> or
>
> Dr. Zbigniew Jaworowski—world-renowned expert on the ancient ice cor es
> used
> in climate research?
>
> or
>
> Prof. Tom V. Segalstad—head of the Geological Museum, University of Oslo?
>
> or
>
> Dr. Syun-Ichi Akasofu—founding director of the International Arctic
> Research
> Center, twice named one of the "1,000 Most Cited Scientists?
>
> or
>
> Dr. Claude Allegre—member, U.S. National Academy of Sciences and Fre nch
> Academy of Science?
>
> or
>
> Dr. Richard Lindzen—Professor of Meteorology at M.I.T., member, the
> National
> Research Council Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate?
>
> or
>
> Dr. Richard Tol—Principal researcher at the Institute for Environmen tal
> Studies at Vrije Universiteit, and Adjunct Professor at the Center for
> Integrated Study of the Human Dimensions of Global Change, at Carnegie
> Mellon University?
>
> or
>
> Prof. Freeman Dyson—one of the world's most eminent physicists?
>
> g
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ted Moffett
> To: Moscow Vision 2020
> Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2009 5:55 PM
> Subject: [Vision2020] Warning From Copenhagen: 2500 Participants:
> 1400Scientific Presentations: Warming Irreversible For a Thousand Years
>
>
> It would be wonderful progress if all those in public political
> positions,
> who have no specialized expertise in climate science (or those few, if
> any,
> who might), would publicly address the anthropogenic climate crisis,
> conceding that the consensus among currently publishing climate
> scientists
> (in credible peer reviewed journals) is overwhelming that humans are
> altering climate in a potentially catastrophic manner. Everyone in
> public
> political life who publicly minimizes this danger, offering support to
> the
> claim that there is substantial scientific evidence that the consensus
> position among climate scientists is seriously doubtful, is part of the
> problem, rather than the solution. The more citizens who demand action
> to
> address anthropogenic climate change, the easier it will be for the
> private
> and public sectors to address the problem:
>
> Article "A Warning From Copenhagen" below from climate scientist Stefan
> Rahmstorf. Rahmstorf's bio:
>
> http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=53
> A physicist and oceanographer by training, Stefan Rahmstorf has moved
> from
> early work in general relativity theory to working on climate issues.
> He has done research at the New Zealand Oceanographic Institute, at the
> Institute of Marine Science in Kiel and since 1996 at the Potsdam
> Institute
> for Climate Impact Research in Germany (in Potsdam near Berlin).
> His work focuses on the role of ocean currents in climate change, past
> and
> present.
> In 1999 Rahmstorf was awarded the $ 1 million Centennial Fellowship Award
> of
> the US-based James S. McDonnell foundation.
> Since 2000 he teaches physics of the oceans as a professor at Potsdam
> University.
> -----------
> A warning from Copenhagen
> Filed under:
> Reporting on climate
> Climate Science
> — stefan
>
> http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2009/06/a-warning-from-copenhagen/#more-690
>
> In March the biggest climate conference of the year took place in
> Copenhagen: 2500 participants from 80 countries, 1400 scientific
> presentations. Last week, the Synthesis Report of the Copenhagen Congress
> was handed over to the Danish Prime Minister Rasmussen in Brussels.
> Denmark
> will host the decisive round of negotiations on the new climate
> protection
> agreement this coming December.
> The climate congress was organised by a "star alliance" of research
> universities: Copenhagen, Yale, Berkeley, Oxford, Cambridge, Tokyo,
> Beijing - to name a few. The Synthesis Report is the most important
> update
> of climate science since the 2007 IPCC report.
> So what does it say? Our regular readers will hardly be surprised by the
> key
> findings from physical climate science, most of which we have already
> discussed here. Some aspects of climate change are progressing faster
> than
> was expected a few years ago - such as rising sea levels, the increase of
> heat stored in the ocean and the shrinking Arctic sea ice. "The updated
> estimates of the future global mean sea level rise are about double the
> IPCC
> projections from 2007″, says the new report. And it points out that any
> warming caused will be virtually irreversible for at least a thousand
> years - because of the long residence time of CO2 in the atmosphere.
> Perhaps more interestingly, the congress also brought together economists
> and social scientists researching the consequences of climate change and
> analysing possible solutions. Here, the report emphasizes once again that
> a
> warming beyond 2ºC is a dangerous thing:
> Temperature rises above 2ºC will be difficult for contemporary socie ties
> to
> cope with, and are likely to cause major societal and environmental
> disruptions through the rest of the century and beyond.
> (Incidentally, by now 124 nations have officially declared their support
> for
> the goal of limiting warming to 2ºC or less, including the EU - but
> unfortunately not yet the US.)
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