The Summit in Doha: Four Reasons for Hope on Climate Change

[sysop]

Can the world's climate still be saved? Many have already given up hope due to steadily climbing emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases. But the battle has not yet been lost -- and there are reasons for optimism. <i>A guest commentary by the British Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Ed Davey</i>

http://www.spiegel.de/international/...-a-870886.html

[thmjones]

[quote=sysop;115558]Can the world's climate still be saved? Many have already given up hope due to steadily climbing emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases. But the battle has not yet been lost -- and there are reasons for optimism.

And, the fifth and greatest reason of them all is that according to the Hadley Centre, the world has not shown statistically significant warming in sixteen years. All indications are that the CO2 theory was just flat wrong. Maybe, nature is more complicated. Maybe, it's time for science, not politics.

[BTraven]

Why has he been asked to write an article when the government he belongs to allows shale fracking? That technology needs chemicals which pollute the groundwater. Such a man should not be given a platform to announce his stupid ideas.