"0NB0Z" <0NB0Z@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
> 24 Jul 2007
> Beset by unexpected summer rain, George Monbiot questions the science:
>
> It wasn't meant to happen like this. The climate scientists told us
> that our winters would become wetter and our summers drier. So I can't
> claim that these floods were caused by climate change, or are even
> consistent with the models. But, like the ghost of Christmas yet to
> come, they offer us a glimpse of the possible winter world that we will
> inhabit if we don't sort ourselves out.
Bonzo doesn't provide a link because he is lying. Surprise, Surprise.
The quote in question comes from an article on ethical shopping by
Monbiot,
and has nothing to do with Global Warming Science.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/jul/24/comment.businesscomment
Ethical shopping is just another way of showing how rich you are
George Monbiot
The Guardian,
Tuesday July 24 2007
The middle cl***** congratulate themselves on going green, then carry on
buying and flying as much as before
It wasn't meant to happen like this. The climate scientists told us that
our
winters would become wetter and our summers drier. So I can't claim that
these floods were caused by climate change, or are even consistent with
the
models. But, like the ghost of Christmas yet to come, they offer us a
glimpse of the possible winter world that we will inhabit if we don't sort
ourselves out.
With rising sea levels and more winter rain - and remember that when the
trees are dormant and the soils saturated, there are fewer places for the
rain to go - all it will take is a freshwater flood to coincide with a
high
spring tide and we have a formula for full-blown disaster. We have now
seen
how localised floods can wipe out essential services and overwhelm
emergency
workers. But this month's events don't even register beside some of the
predictions circulating in learned journals. Our primary political
struggle
must be to prevent the breakup of the Greenland and West Antarctic ice
sheets. The only question now worth asking about climate change is how.
Dozens of new books seem to provide an answer: we can save the world by
embracing "better, greener lifestyles". Last week, for instance, the
Guardian published an extract from A Slice of Organic Life, the book by
Sheherazade Goldsmith - married to the very rich environmentalist Zac - in
which she teaches us "to live within nature's limits". It's easy. Just
make
your own bread, butter, cheese, jam, chutneys and pickles, keep a milking
cow, a few pigs, goats, geese, ducks, chickens, beehives, gardens and
orchards. Well, what are you waiting for?
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