Sunday, January 12, 2014

In the world where science rules

Britain's special representative for climate change offers a dire warning (Click on this heading to read more)

Rss@dailykos.com (laurence Lewis)
Tuesday, January 07, 2014, 9:42 pm
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David King was Britain's chief scientific adviser from 2000-2007, and last September was appointed the foreign secretary's special representative for climate change. By Britain's conservative foreign secretary. And as Britain struggles with a series of storms that have left massive flooding, King has offered a warning:

Britain needs to face up to a radical change in weather conditions that could be the result of global warming, and spend much more on flood defences, Sir David King, the government's special envoy on climate change, has said.
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Amid the worst floods for decades, King said the UK must do more to manage the problem, potentially doubling spending to £1bn a year by 2020, as extreme weather events are likely to become more frequent.

What the wingnuts and climate deniers don't understand-or don't want others to understand-is that climate change means climate change. It's not that the entire globe will be uniformly warming, and cold weather will go away, it's that extreme weather will become the norm. Higher highs and lower lows and more frequent and more intense storms. Which is exactly what's happening. And also happening is the continuing pattern of hotter years for the entire globe.
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"The important thing to get across is the simple notion that storms and severe weather conditions that we might have expected to occur once in 100 years, say, in the past may now be happening more frequently," (King) told BBC Radio 5 Live.
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"And the reason is - as predicted by scientists - that the climate is changing and as the climate changes we can anticipate quite a radical change in weather conditions."

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