Warmist Konrad Steffen has a complaint: "The focus is on the economy at the expense of budgets for tackling climate change"

Expert says acceleration of global warming is 'frighteningly quick': theparliament.com

A high-level conference was told that the acceleration of climate change in the arctic is moving at a "frighteningly quick" pace.

Konrad Steffen, director of the Swiss Federal Research Institute, said that 2012 had been an "extreme" year for global warming in the arctic.

Steffen, a renowned expert on arctic issues, told the conference organised by the International Polar Foundation, "The acceleration of it has exceeded all expectations. It is quite scary."

Steffen, whose research has been studied by international scientists and experts, also warned that the economic malaise in the eurozone had "pushed" the climate issue further down the political agenda.

He said, "The focus is on the economy at the expense of budgets for tackling climate change. This may make sense to economists but policymakers have to realise that we need both."
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On the eve of the event, German glaciologist Reinhard Drews was presented with the prestige €150,000 InBev-Baillet Latour Antarctica Fellowship for his proposal to investigate how melting ice shelves could contribute to increased ice flow.

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“We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can't scoff at them personally, to their faces, and this is what annoys me.”