On Wednesday, 14 August 2019 10:04:17 UTC+1, Norman Lynagh wrote:
Spike wrote:

On 14/08/2019 11:06, Norman Lynagh wrote:

An excellent article from the Financial Times. IMHO it tells it as
it is.

https://www.ft.com/content/d7ec60e6-...e-8b459ed04726

" Become an FT subscriber to read:

Emission impossible? Harsh facts on climate change"


No. thank you. I for one do not wish to subscribe to the FT.


If one is going to refer to an article that is only available from
behind a paywall, it might be polite to quote the key points from it
(as well as give the link) , as not all readers will be able to
access - or be willing to pay - to access the original.


Don't know the answer to that. I got into the article via a re-tweet
from Paul Beckwith. There was no paywall. Since your post I have gone
back to the re-tweet and tried again. This time I also get the paywall.
Unfortunately, I didn't save the article so I can't display it
elsewhere. I don't subscribe to the FT.

I got into the article straight away, but when I went back it asked me to supscribe at £1 for 4 weeks. I went back a second time and it asked me to answer a 4 question survey. I did that, nothing to personal, and got back to the article, which I copied and pasted below.

But it begins:

"Please use the sharing tools found via the share button at the top or side of articles. Copying articles to share with others is a breach of FT.com T&Cs and Copyright Policy. Email to buy additional rights. Subscribers may share up to 10 or 20 articles per month using the gift article service. More information can be found at https://www.ft.com/tour.
https://www.ft.com/content/d7ec60e6-9b9a-11e9-b8ce-8b459ed04726"

So I will only post my take on the article.

It is titled "Emission impossible? Harsh facts on climate change" and subtitled
"How will the world cope as more extreme weather becomes the norm?" by Simon Kuper

It begins
" I live in France, where last Friday was the hottest day ever recorded. In Gallargues-le-Montueux in the south, the temperature hit 45.9C. In Paris, where it was only 37C, people around me with asthma and eye allergies suffered terribly. My doctor told me the heat was aggravating his older patients’ cardiovascular problems. But, he added, it was dangerous for them to come and see him because his waiting room was boiling. He plans to install air-conditioning. That will worsen the climate further."

He then argues that the climate will become unbearable, but that the current politicians such as Trump, Boris and greenie Elizabeth Warren are incapable of solving the problem. They are proposing green growth. "Instead the world needs a new political class obsessed with climate and engineering. ... Once some engineering-savvy climate leaders emerge, we can finally start taking climate change seriously."

As I am an engineer obsessed by climate change, you might think I would agree, but I don't. The scientists are using outdated science, and have not been trained in dynamical systems, yet that is what they are trying to analyse. As I see it the climate is not going to get incrementally worse. What will happen is an abrupt change to new climate system similar to that which happened 10,000 years ago when the Arctic sea ice, which had spread into the North Atlanic during the Younger Dryas interstadial, suddenly retreated and temperatures soared. It is too late to stop that happening now.