"Ian Bingham" wrote in message
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"Alastair McDonald" wrote in message ...

There is a video here where a climate scientist gives his views of the
state we are in with regards to global warming.
http://vimeo.com/43012713
Of course, those who should watch it won't :-(

Cheers, Alastair.

On the other hand, read "Climate: The Counter Consensus" by Prof. Robert
M.Carter, an erudite work which comes to some rather different
conclusions. I believe it is reviewed by readers on Amazon. With the
experts so much at variance I think one has to keep a strictly open mind
on this vexed topic. It doesn't even seem to be decided whether increased
CO2 causes global warming or whether it is the other way round.

Ian Bingham,
Inchmarlo, Aberdeenshire.


Prof. Bob Carter is a well known Aussie sceptic. There have been quite a
few of them since scepticism was pioneered by John Daly. Here is the
blurb from a book, "Requiem for a Species: Why we resist the truth
about climate change", by another Australian professor Clive Hamilton:

"This book does not set out once more to raise the alarm to encourage us to
take radical measures to head off climate chaos. There have been any number
of books and reports in recent years explaining just how dire the future
looks and how little time we have left to act. This book is about why we
have ignored those warnings, and why it is now too late. It is a book about
the frailties of the human species as expressed in both the institutions we
built and the psychological dispositions that have led us on the path of
self-destruction. It is about our strange obsessions, our hubris, and our
penchant for avoiding the facts. It is the story of a battle within us
between the forces that should have caused us to protect the Earth - our
capacity to reason and our connection to Nature - and those that, in the
end, have won out - our greed, materialism and alienation from Nature. And
it is about the 21st century consequences of these failures."

Cheers, Alastair.