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Climate Change Will Not Be Dangerous for a Long Time
Slower warming than predicted gives the world time to develop better energy technologies
By Matt Ridley | November 27, 2015
The climate change debate has been polarized into a simple dichotomy. Either global warming is real, man-made and dangerous, as Pres. Barack Obama thinks, or its a hoax, as Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe thinks. But there is a third possibility: that it is real, man-made and not dangerous, at least not for a long time.
This lukewarm option has been boosted by recent climate research, and if it is right, current policies may do more harm than good. For example, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and other bodies agree that the rush to grow biofuels, justified as a decarbonization measure, has raised food prices and contributed to rainforest destruction. Since 2013 aid agencies such as the U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corporation, the World Bank and the European Investment Bank have restricted funding for building fossil-fuel plants in Asia and Africa; that has slowed progress in bringing electricity to the one billion people who live without it and the four million who die each year from the effects of cooking over wood fires.
Slower warming than predicted gives the world time to develop better energy technologies
By Matt Ridley | November 27, 2015
The climate change debate has been polarized into a simple dichotomy. Either global warming is real, man-made and dangerous, as Pres. Barack Obama thinks, or its a hoax, as Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe thinks. But there is a third possibility: that it is real, man-made and not dangerous, at least not for a long time.
This lukewarm option has been boosted by recent climate research, and if it is right, current policies may do more harm than good. For example, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and other bodies agree that the rush to grow biofuels, justified as a decarbonization measure, has raised food prices and contributed to rainforest destruction. Since 2013 aid agencies such as the U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corporation, the World Bank and the European Investment Bank have restricted funding for building fossil-fuel plants in Asia and Africa; that has slowed progress in bringing electricity to the one billion people who live without it and the four million who die each year from the effects of cooking over wood fires.
More at the link at Scientific American
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Matt Ridley writes a weekly column in The Times of London and writes regularly for The Wall Street Journal. He was elected to the House of Lords in February 2013. He declares a relevant interest in income derived from leasing land for farming, coal mining and wind power.
Move a long folks, there's nothing to see here. Global warming doesn't matter. You have the word of a columnist on that.
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"Climate Cahnge Will Not Be Dangerous for a Long Time" (Original Post)
Binkie The Clown
Nov 2015
OP
He joins that other hereditary peer and distinguished climatologist and atmospheric scientist,
cheapdate
Nov 2015
#1
Seriously, it will take literally hours before it becomes an immediate danger
Half-Century Man
Nov 2015
#2
cheapdate
(3,811 posts)1. He joins that other hereditary peer and distinguished climatologist and atmospheric scientist,
Christopher Walter Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley. A former friend of mine used to cite him as a counterpoint to the findings of actual geophysical scientists.
Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)2. Seriously, it will take literally hours before it becomes an immediate danger
Relax, step outside and listen to the last few song birds while you can; I mean while there is still time.....I mean while away the few remaining hours................a few hours spent while listening to songbirds makes you feel better (nailed it).
NickB79
(19,276 posts)3. Global warming causes 300,000 deaths a year, says Kofi Annan thinktank