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25-07-2007 14:37
Criminal Bush-ite climate denial
The above utterly FALSE comment illustrates the fundamental global problem of criminal Bush-ite spin and denial in relation to the overhwelming international global scientific consensus on greenhouse gas-driven climate change and the acute threat to our children and grandchildren. 
 
Indeed the sharp differences now emerging WITHIN that consensus relate to the time frame to disaster. The 2007 IPCC Report was watered down through Bush Administration pressure - now Dr James Hansen (America's foremost climate change expert; NASA's Goddard Center) and his collleagues say (in the prestigous Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society) that the IPCC consensus UNDER-ESTIMATED the rate of ice melting (it is happening much faster than predicted) and albedo change (reflectivity decline through replacement of white ice with dark water). 
 
Indeed Professor James Lovelock FRS (the Gaia Hypothesis) in his latest book "The Revenge of Gaia" says that it is almost too late to stop CO2 in the atmosphere increasing from the current 380 ppm to 500ppm (at which point the ocean phytopklankton system goes into crisis and the Greenland Ice sheet vanishes). 
 
I have been a scientist for 4 decades. Over 4 decades ago in the 1960s I was taught the basic physics and chemistry of spectroscopy (light absorption) and fundamentals of physical causality - my organic chemistry teachers then were aghast that we were BURNING the feedstock (oil) of organic chemical industry that is so fundamental to modern life (just look around you as you read this and see the plastics, the fabrics, the light fittings, the book covers, the paint on your walls, the medicine you have taken today, the packaging of your food etc etc etc). 
 
Ten years on in the 1970s I was made urgently aware of the finiteness of the earth's atmosphere that had become THEN of major concern to environmental scientists, plant physiologists, biophysicists, hydrologists etc. 
 
By the 1990s the broad picture of the unfolding disaster was emerging in the top scientific literature (e.g. top journals such as Science and Nature)- the effects on sea level and tropical and sub-tropical agriculture were the most serious threats. So concerned was I that I took time from my "regular" scientifc concerns and wrote a book about it entitled "Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History. Colonial rapacity, holocaust denial and the crisis in biological sustainability". 
 
Now in the middle of the first decade of 21st century the world'stop climate experts are telling us that it is almost TOO LATE to stop devastating consequences of climate change. The IPCC in a previous Assessment Report indicated various scenarios depending upon the vigour of global responses - the harsh reality is that the ACTUAL CO2 increase is following the WORST and most CATASTROPHIC scenario, despite Kyoto and despite concern by most governments throughout the world.  
 
The LETHARGY of the response is due in large measure to GREED and the profound dishonesty, corruption, spin and LYING of the Bush-ite climate criminals of which the worst offenders by far are Bush America (the world's worst greenhouse gas polluter) and the extreme right-wing, racist, Bush-ite climate criminals running Australia (the world's biggest coal exporter). 
 
The situation is acutely serious - this is about your OWN security as well as that of your children and grandchildren. There must be zero tolerance for climate criminal lying and denial that amounts to "prospective holocaust denial" but denial of a looming holocaust THIS CENTURY that is 100 times bigger (according to the UK's Chief Scientist) than the WW2 Jewish Holocaust (5-6 million victims)or the man-made WW2 Bengali Holocaust (4 million victims but "rubbed out " of history by racist, lying DENIERS).
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