April 30, 2008
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/farrelly_freaks/
Elizabeth Farrelly, the Sydney Morning Herald's chief green, has a bad
case of apocalyptis:
The dilemma is clear. It's this. Our future wealth, so gleefully
proclaimed, depends on selling fossil fuels - oil, gas, coal - to as
many people as possible as hard and as long as possible. But our future
survival depends on reducing global use of these same fuels, as much as
possible, immediately. Burning coal is burning coal; it puts carbon in
the air, and that may stop the Gulf Stream, dead, within the decade.
It's fascinating to see how unhinged from facts is Farrelly's gleeful
embrace of the doom to come. That dead Gulf Stream scenario, for a
start, is something Farrelly seems to have picked up from a movie, The
Day After Tomorrow, but not from the scientists:
No climate models project a complete shutdown of the Gulf Stream, which
feeds warm water up the east coast of North America and across the
Atlantic Ocean to Europe.
Andrew Weaver, a Canadian researcher and lead author of a chapter
dealing with ocean currents in the IPCC re****t. "To be perfectly honest,
it's difficult to fathom a mechanism that could cause its collapse."
(Scientist Bogi) Hansen said his latest measurements on the underwater
Greenland-Scotland ridge show no weakening in the North Atlantic Drift,
the crucial northward branch of the Gulf Stream.
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Warmest Regards
Bonzo
"The notion of a static, unchanging climate is foreign to the history of
the earth or any other planet with a fluid envelope. The fact that the
developed world went into hysterics over changes in global mean
temperature of a few tenths of a degree will astound future
generations." Richard Lindzen, Professor of Meteorology MIT and Member
of the National Academy of Sciences
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