Weather Banter - View Single Post - Scientists urged to spread word on global warming

Keith Dancey · April 22nd 05, 08:48 AM posted to uk.sci.weather

In article , "Alastair McDonald" k writes:

Global warming is real, dangerous and ignored at great risk to the
planet, a leading environmentalist told an audience of about 250 at
last week's inaugural MIT Environmental Fellows Invitational Lecture.
Professor James Gustave Speth, Dean of Yale University's School of
Forestry and Environmental Studies, urged the scientific community to
make its case to the public, which remains unconvinced of the crisis
despite decades of first-rate science and policy analysis, he said.

Good piece. Climate change as a subject has not raised one eyebrow above
the parapit, let alone a whole head, in the current General Election
campaign.

Polticians, Green Party excepted, are afraid of confronting the electorate
with the reality of the situation.

Cheers,

keith

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