Wednesday, March 14, 2007

[climate change] blogosphere misinformed

The closer you get to snow areas such as I live in, the more visible is the climate change, which has been progressively getting worse for the last eight years or so. Consequences will flow.

At the same time, powerful lobbies have seized the phenomenon and are indulging in ludicrous and ultimately pointless debate, which the blogosphere also seizes on, as it fits in with the libertarian, anti-globalist stance so beloved of the average blogger [I shan't link to my colleagues here].

I think they've got the argument a-se end round here. The phenomenon most certainly is happening, humans are responsible and not just any humans. Then there's a factor almost no one talks about - check out the links near the end of this post.

Don't forget the old issue of the rainforests either, or the North American emissions. But why stop there? How about Europe, including Britain, one of the worst offenders?

Into all this comes money: “Now that money enters the picture with carbon trading, so does fraud. The incentive will be to under-report emissions”, which brings us back to the problem this post began with - misinformation.

It was always going to be so when powerful lobbies are pitted against one another, there are huge profits to be made and a blogosphere to dazzle.

UPDATE: Ellee Seymour has invited a guest blogger, William Connelly, who thoroughly debunks Channel 4's criminal inaccuracy:

"Channel 4 clearly have no interest in whether they broadcast truth or not; and the number of people prepared to fall for this tripe."

3 comments:

  1. I have no idea how much of the climate change is down to man but I do know that we owe it to our children, and the planet and its residents, to behave in a responsible and less wasteful way.

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  2. I agree, it's been ignored for so long, and now we are in panic. Thank you for adding my link. Even if people disagree, at least it is being talked about openly.

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  3. The debunker didn't debunk anything o.O

    I mean, citing wikipedia as a 'true' source?

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