Hi all,
For those of you who can listen again to Today Programme [1], at 8.46
am, you can hear Ralph Cicerone, a leading climate scientist and
president of the National Academy of Sciences, being interviewed by John
Humphrys. This is what I'm sending to BBC:
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I was shocked to hear Professor Cicerone, about to become a Fellow of
the Royal Society, being interviewed on the Today Programme, just before
9 am. The BBC interviewer, John Humphrys, commented on the English
weather, and the professor said that, despite the cold here this summer,
overall there had been significant warming everywhere over the past
decades. The professor was talking about adaptation - how we prepare
for the future. "You're not being apocalyptic" John commented. The
professor accused those people who warn of an apocalypse of a
"self-fulfilling prophecy", as if they were in a street crying that the
bank is going to go bust. What nonsense!
Why was the reason for our current "stuck weather" not discussed, when
it was in the Times and other papers earlier this week that the stuck
weather is probably due to the Arctic sea ice decline and Arctic
warming, causing the jet stream to miander more and tend to get stuck in
one place?
With the sea ice disappearing much more rapidly than predicted, it is
vital that something is done to cool the Arctic and avoid the situation
deteriorating rapidly towards the apocalyptic. Could John not have
challenged the professor on this?
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Cheers,
John
[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/listen_again/default.stm
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