Comments on: Emergency Climate Science Summit Convenes in Copenhagen

By: oleterney

oleterney — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:10:00 +0000

The link is:

http://www.nanonyt.dk/2009/12/10/katherine-rich...

By: oleterney

oleterney — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:07:42 +0000

Katherine Richardson, a marine biologist at the University of Copenhagen, and chairman of the Danish climate commission said 9th December 2009 at the COP15 Peoples Climate Summit:

The climate debate is like the Darwin debate: "Both debates are about how humans think about themselves. In the case of Darwin it was, ‘Can we really just be another species and may be decended from ape?’, and in this case it is ‘Can human beings, as small and insignificant as we are, really have an impact on something as huge as the Earth and the way it works?’ "

"In both cases we are challenging what the vast majority of society actually believes is an economic pillar of the time. In the case of Darwin most of the people in power believed that economic growth was not possible without slave trade. When you come with an argument that we are all the same family and we are selling our brothers it kind of undermines slavery. That was one of the big problems in terms of social acceptance. And obviously we know that climate science is challenging the economic belief that you cannot have growth without fossil fuels as a source of energy".

Look at the video (link)

By: oleterney

oleterney — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:10:00 +0000

The link is:

http://www.nanonyt.dk/2009/12/10/katherine-rich...

By: oleterney

oleterney — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:07:42 +0000

By: Richard Levangie

Richard Levangie — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:38:37 +0000

Thanks, Tom!

Have you ever argued with someone who thinks global warming is just a big hoax, and he or she gives you the line about ice cubes melting in a glass a water when you mention that Greenland is melting...

I've had that happen twice so far this year. We have such a long way to go.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:00:20 +0000

Good post Richard. I participated in an Earthwatch expedition last year to the Canadian Arctic to help study permafrost conditions along the Arctic/sub-Arctic transition zone.
The lead scientist, Peter Kershaw, has been studying the areas since the ’70′s. There is no question in his mind that enough isn’t being done to mitigate and adapt to a rapidly changing climate. I certainly hope the work in Copenhagen can help light a fire, as it were, under policy-makers. We have squandered the past decade and there is no time to lose.