Chris Mooney is an author, and the Washington correspondent for Seed magazine and a senior correspondent for the American Prospect (I’m not referring, though, to the other Chris Mooney, also a writer).
He was in Vancouver this week and got a tour of the storm damage to Stanley Park. He had some interesting things to say on his site about why we shouldn’t associate global warming with extreme weather events:
And there’s another problem when it comes to using individual weather events, however extreme, to mobilize people around global warming. When this subject came up on the panel last night, Hadi Dowlatabadi–UBC Professor at the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability–pointed out (if I remember correctly) that it’s dangerous to tell the public that they should make sacrifices to curtail global warming and thereby stave off storm destruction. What happens if people do make sacrifices, and then due to the whimsicality of weather, they get hit by another devastating storm anyway? Isn’t this then setting the stage for members of the public to turn around and say, I want my SUV back?
And the science is mixed on this point, too. Apparently global warming ought to lead to “less excitation of extratropical storms.”
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Increased hurricanes, wind storms in Vancouver, a green Christmas in Ottawa, twisters in London…
What’s wrong with sacrifices to get us in line with the rest of the world? 1 storm may not equal global warming, but continuous ones mean something is awry.
Dan:
there’s always weather. There was weather a hundred years ago, and a thousand years ago.
“Continuous” storms mostly mean that there’s always weather somewhere.
DB: so now global warming is going to make the weather milder as well as warmer? How can we speed this process up?
Here is an url that you can send to friends and family that will direct them to the video “The Great Global Warming Swindle”.
http://gorelied.notlong.com
For more information on the documentary you can go here.
http://www.channel4.com/science/microsites/G/great_global_warming_swindle/index.html
Ryan: Yeah, and in a few years my ‘high bank’ waterfront property will be beach front. Sweet!
Sean: I might watch that video when I’ve got an hour and ten minutes. In the meantime, I’m going to stick with the unilateral scientific consensus that global warming is caused by humanity. I mean, all those scientists could be wrong, but you know what? They’re not.
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