Climate Change Is Real Says the British Government’s Chief Scientific Advisor
Climate change is happening, beyond any reasonable doubt says David King, the British government’s chief scientific advisor. It is the most serious and potentially catastrophic problem that we face today.
(PRWEB) May 12, 2005 -- Professor Sir David King makes his comments as part
of the world’s first truly global high quality debate on the politics of climate
change.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/entry_points/climatechange.jsp
Sir
David writes that there is no scientific debate around the fundamentals of
climate change, only a false image in the world’s media. “There is also an issue
that some, including some politicians, simply do not want to hear the evidence,
regarding the implications as just too unpalatable (and politically unpopular)
to be faced”.
The debate, introduced by best
selling and globally acclaimed novelist Ian McEwan, includes voices and views
from across the world, including “green” Republicans in the United States
activists and politicians in China, India, Brazil, and those who have been at
the centre of political struggles. It combines top quality intellectual
engagement with easy accessibility, plus unique features such as photographs,
poems, soundscapes, news from the cutting edge of science and much more.
The
British government has promised leadership on climate change at the forthcoming
summit of the leaders of the G8 (richest industrial nations plus Russia) and
during its presidency of the European Union. But is Tony Blair’s government,
safely back in power, all talk and no action, ready to back down from its words
at the slightest hint from powerful vested interests allies?
Read
more:
A space for climate change sceptics: response to David King. As long as
science is uncertain about the impacts of greenhouse gas emissions in the
Earth’s atmosphere, the public are justified in keeping an open mind, says Benny
Peiser.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-6-129-2490.jsp
What
to do about climate change? British activists debate the impacts of climate
change.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-6-129-2476.jsp
Join
the debate at
http://www.opendemocracy.net/entry_points/climatechange.jsp
The
openDemocracy debate on the politics of climate change is produced by
openDemocracy.net, the London-based project for global open politics, in
collaboration with the British Council.
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