The White House - Press Office - Remarks By President Obama At Dinner With President Calderon 4/16/2009

We spoke about our obligation to take steps to build clean energy together that can power our economies and beat back climate change in future centuries.

More Signs of (the Alarmists’) Apocalypse | GlobalWarming.org

When an alarmist comes out to dismiss the erstwhile poster children, as I just saw in an article:

“‘When you come down to it, nobody really cares about what the global mean temperature is doing, or what the global mean sea level is,’ said Antonio Busalacchi, an oceanographer who chairs the WCRP.”

Oh. Right. Of course and…we knew that. So this must be the person who led the charge against throwing billions in taxpayer dollars at research on global mean temperature and sea level, and telling, e.g., Barack Obama to clam up about such piffles.

Researcher: More money needed for research

Ian Allison is leader of the Australian Antarctic Division's Ice, Ocean, Atmosphere and Climate program and a researcher within the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Center.
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WHAT ARE YOUR MAIN MESSAGES TO POLICY MAKERS?

"The main thing is monitoring what's actually happening with sea level rise and the ice sheets. We've now got tools that can do that, we can improve those and make sure they keep going, particularly satellite-based systems.

We need better predictive tools to know just what is likely in the next 100 years. I don't think we should be rushing into building up coastal defenses until we know what we could be defending against. So our biggest requirement is to be able to refine our projections for what may happen in the future."