The climate imperative
The head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reiterates why action is needed – and the positive side-effects of action.
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Today, international action on climate change is urgent and essential. Indeed, there can no longer be any debate about the need to act, because the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), of which I am chairman, has established climate change as an unequivocal reality beyond scientific doubt.
For instance, changes are taking place in precipitation patterns, with a trend toward higher precipitation levels in the world's upper latitudes and lower precipitation in some sub-tropical and tropical regions, as well as in the Mediterranean area. The number of extreme precipitation events is also increasing – and are increasingly widespread. Moreover, the frequency and intensity of heat waves, floods, and droughts are on the rise.
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This Climate action you are demanding is not going to happen. Know why? Because the public does not believe you anymore, buddy. They do not trust the Greens. Here are a few reasons: The Hockey stick graph debacle; quashing debate by saying “the debate is over the science is settled”; the name change from Global warming to Climate Change; intentionally confusing C02 with pollution; the UN IPCC saying that 600 scientists wrote their last report when there were really only 60; or how about the faked images of flooded coastal cities; remember the “drowning” polar bear photos; the list goes on and on. All of this has done damage to the reputation and credibility of the Green Movement. If the science were good, there would be no need for this kind of subterfuge. And all of it designed to convince skeptics to agree to a new tax to fight a nonexistent threat. The skeptics ask, ‘why would the Greens want us to pay for C02 emissions when they haven’t shown that C02 controls the climate?’. The skeptics ultimately conclude that the Green’s must have an ulterior motive, and this distrust is making it harder and harder to sell climate action. Nice work.
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