Nicholas Stern endorses 350 ppm as “a very sensible long-term target”

This week Nicholas Stern, the British top climate economist and academic who is probably most known for the Stern Review, endorsed 350 ppm as “a very sensible long-term target.”

[But wait a minute: As it turns out, Stern isn't even a climatologist!]

Nicholas Herbert Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford, FBA (born 22 April 1946, Hammersmith) is a British economist and academic.

Giles Slade: Alaska's Walruses High and Dry: Huffington Post

I write about the human migrations that will result from future environmental collapse of our continent in my forthcoming book, North American Ark, but most people, I believe, already share a vague sense of some overwhelming danger that hovers slightly beyond the horizon. This sense is sharpened by immanent species extinctions like those of the Polar Bear and Pacific Walrus.

My main point is that climate change is very real and is already causing disastrous, irreversible and extensive environmental change right here in North America.

About Giles Slade [He's not even a climatologist!]

In 1994, Giles Slade completed a vicious and protracted doctorate in cultural history, and now describes himself a ‘recovering academic writer.’ Fortunately, he had early training as a reporter, and later worked as a staff writer of action adventure novels for Harlequin Enterprises once describing that job as ‘the most fun you could have with your pants on.’