New independent study supports Green Party findings on climate change
A climate change report for the climate skeptics from The Berkeley Earth group.
This new study reinforces the evidence that the Earth's climate is heating up. It shows that a number of skeptic arguments, such as the "heat island effect" of the world's major conurbations, cannot explain away climate change.
The study is also important because it uses a huge data set and shows the long term trend over a time period of about 2 centuries. Skeptics often leap on events such as a cold winter in a particular location to try and disprove climate change and in so doing reveal a total lack of scientific understanding. Climate is weather averaged over 30 years. So climate change does not mean that every year will be hotter than the previous one - or that it will not snow any more.
The Green Party was arguing that climate change was a serious issue decades ago - long before the other parties took an interest and at a time when the issue was rarely in the news. This was because then - and now - the Green Party tries to use the best evidence available to back up its policies, rather than taking a pre-determined position and trying to get "facts" to fit.
The tragedy in all of this is that despite the overwhelmingly strong scientific evidence than human society is altering the planet's atmosphere, causing it to heat up, and the urgent need for action, far too little is being done to head off what we remain on course for - dangerous climate change. Skeptic organisations such as the Global Warming Policy Foundation continue to cherry pick so called "facts" to suit their cause but hopefully this study will start to erode doubt from the mind of even the strongest of deniers.
Report by James Abbott - Green Party Science and Technology Spokesperson
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