Category: Global Climate Destabilization

Reckless cautiousness

“Scientists should be much braver […] I think this ethics argument – should they speak or shouldn’t they – is a lot of nonsense. Scientists cannot promise certainty any more than economists can when they call for changes in taxes or interest rates. Uncertainty is part of the human condition. Caution, in any case, may in reality be recklessness.” – Crispin Tickell

Anticlima(tic Conferencing on the Titanic

“Copenhagen, for me, is a very clear deadline that I think we need to meet, and I am afraid that if we don’t, then the process will begin to slip, and […] one deadline after the other will not be met, and we sort of become the little orchestra on the Titanic.”

– CØP15 orchestrator Yvo de Boer, December 2008, speaking to George Monbiot

The party …

{Turley, C., Blackford, J., Widdicombe, S., Lowe, D., Nightingale, P.D. and A.P. Rees, A.P., 2006: 25. Reviewing the impact of increased atmospheric CO2 on oceanic pH and the marine ecosystem. In: Schellnhuber, H J., Cramer,W., Nakicenovic, N., Wigley, T. and Yohe, G (Eds), Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change, Cambridge University Press, 8, p. 65-70}

… is about to begin

{Turley, C., Blackford, J., Widdicombe, S., Lowe, D., Nightingale, P.D. and A.P. Rees, A.P., (2006), ‘Reviewing the impact of increased atmospheric CO2 on oceanic pH and the marine ecosystem’. In: Schellnhuber, H J., Cramer,W., Nakicenovic, N., Wigley, T. and Yohe, G (Eds), Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change, Cambridge University Press, 8, p. 65-70}