FCPP Publications :: Dr. Madhav Khandekar, [IPCC] Scientist

FC: Does CO2, or the more politically correct term greenhouse gas emissions, have any impact whatsoever on global temperatures or are they entirely irrelevant?

MK: They are entirely irrelevant. I don’t see that CO2 is inducing any climate change. CO2 may have induced a small amount of warming that we saw in the 80’s and 90’s but more importantly CO2 is an inert gas, it is not a pollutant. That’s a misleading misconception. It is a very healthy ingredient for the world’s agriculture and forestry. We have shown definitely through satellite data that world forestry has been enriched in the last 10 years because of increased CO2. I think it is incorrect to say that CO2 is a pollutant and a dangerous gas and it’s a misleading concept.

Low-carbon industry new boon for China?

“I’m not so optimistic about the low-carbon industry,” [Zhang Yue, vice chairman of Sustainable Buildings and Construction Initiative of the United Nations Environment Program] told the Global Times. “It is exaggerated too much.”

Ohio.com - Roundtable speaker says global warming threat is real

Larry J. Schweiger, president and chief executive of the National Wildlife Federation with 4 million members, told the Akron Roundtable that ''the world is in a very dangerous place'' and too many Americans are unaware of the potential consequences.

Schweiger told an audience of 350 people that he was not trying to be an alarmist but the science of global warming — more than 10,000 studies in all, he said — is ''alarming . . . and a very disturbing trend.''
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Evidence of global warming is widespread: an ice-free Arctic, melting ice in Greenland, methane gas escaping from lakes in Siberia and Alaska, thawing Arctic soils, increased storms, forest fires and lightning strikes, pine beetles that are wiping out Western forests and warmer oceans.