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Are you really surprised?biffvernon wrote: It appears that the whole thing was censored before it got published!
Well actually, after reading the Summary, I wasn't sure there was much room for stuff to have been removed. The report is dire enough. It's the selective cherry-picking by the BBC and some newspaper articles that it seriously worrying. The BBC radio 4 reports on Sunday and Monday, that focussed on a misreading of one paragraph (Economics, page 17) that was particularly surprising. It was as if the editors had recognised the impossibility of bring someone like Lawson on again so they deliberately found a more insidious way to subvert the message.kenneal - lagger wrote:
Are you really surprised?
SourceAh. Dragged kicking and screaming into the twentieth century.To increase the odds of avoiding disastrous changes that will destabilise our futures, we must reduce emissions deeply and quickly.
We are not doing so. We must start now.
SourceSince 2008, the World Bank Group has provided over $21 billion in financing for fossil fuels. Fossil fuel finance overall has lessened somewhat in recent years; from 2008 to 2010 World Bank Group financing for oil, gas and coal averaged $4.7 billion a year, while from 2011 to 2013 financing averaged $2.3 billion. However, despite these trends, finance for fossil fuel exploration projects over the period was highest in 2013, at nearly $1 billion out of $2.7 billion total for fossil fuel projects in 2013.
It's my opinion that it's too late; nothing anyone does is going to slow, let alone reverse, climate change. It's fecked we are.“Doing something” implies that developing nations of the world and the fossil fuel industry will come together and: 1) Agree that climate change is actually happening; 2) Understand that the situation is so dire that humanity’s living arrangements must be radically altered; 3) Sacrifice their economic security and industrial profits to significantly reduce carbon emissions; 4) Agree to the reality of climate change and the altering of their living arrangements in time to prevent another 2 degree C rise in temperature.
I dare say that the same people who believe this is going to happen would vehemently protest a belief in Santa Claus, but nevertheless, they cling to this chimera.
Here we go again. The BBC is bent. Nigel Lawson simply tells lies, for instance, that fossil fuel is not subsidised or that global temperatures are declining.biffvernon wrote:The BBC radio 4 reports on Sunday and Monday, that focussed on a misreading of one paragraph (Economics, page 17) that was particularly surprising. It was as if the editors had recognised the impossibility of bring someone like Lawson on again so they deliberately found a more insidious way to subvert the message.
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