Alastair B. McDonald wrote:


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would agree, but I don't. The scientists are using outdated science,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.

I can certainly see that abrupt changes to the global climate are
possible and perhaps likely. Exactly what these changes might be is a
bit more speculative but I certainly agree with you, Alastair, that
whatever is now locked into the system will happen and there's nothing
we, the human race, can do about that. Mega disaster management looms
for later this century. Forget Brexit, forget the NHS, forget
everything that seems important today. IMHO managing the climate
catastrophe will be the only thing that matters later this century. As
I have said before, it won't be a case of 'save the planet'. It'll be
'save the human race'. The planet can look after itself and would
probably do so much better without the meddling humans.

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Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
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