Storms Should Wake Up Neo-Cons: Scientist (Climate Loonies in the States)

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Storms should wake up neo-cons: scientist
By Charles Clover and Roger Highfield in London
September 24, 2005

The violence of hurricanes Rita and Katrina should at last awake the Bush Administration to the danger of climate change, a leading British scientist said.

Professor Sir John Lawton, chairman of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, said the intensity of the hurricanes was caused by water in the Gulf of Mexico being warmer than usual and was consistent with the latest scientific predictions of how the climate will behave as a result of man-made warming.

"If this makes the climate loonies in the States realise we've got a problem, something good will come out of this situation," Sir John told a meeting of the commission in London.
"It's a fair conclusion to draw that global warming, caused to a substantial extent by people - we already know that - is driving increased sea surface temperatures and therefore increasing the violence of hurricanes. "Increasingly it looks like it's a smoking gun."

Sir John is the third of a triumvirate of Britain's most senior scientists to berate the Bush Administration for lack of urgency in tackling climate change, the others being Lord May, president of the Royal Society, and Professor Sir David King, the Prime Minister's chief scientific adviser.

http://smh.com.au/news/world/storms-should-wake-up-neocons-scientist/2005/09/23/1126982230837.html

[whistle]

1. Another bizzar twist to Katrina and maybe also Rita....

.... http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4865289&mesg_id=4865289

[cloudythescribbler]

2. sounds like wishful thinking

John Stuart Mill (referring to the conservatives of his own day) had some very choice observations about the nature of what he called stupidity, in blocs. The essence of his point is -- if you're looking for them to change and respond to facts, don't hold your breath, or as they say in Yiddish -- 'a la vie'.(pronounced VY, not like the French VEE)

[Ernesto]

3. This is global warming, says environmental chief

In a series of outspoken comments - a thinly veiled attack on the Bush administration, Sir John hit out at neoconservatives in the US who still deny the reality of climate change.
Sir John said: "Increasingly it looks like a smoking gun. It's a fair conclusion to draw that global warming, caused to a substantial extent by people, is driving increased sea surface temperatures and increasing the violence of hurricanes."

[Erika]

4. Yes, it's a fact accepted by world scientists

but scoffed at by W's paid big oil scientists.

[Historic NY]

5. No the will blame the "Wrath of God".......

for the problem.

[rodeodance]

7. or 'Mother Nature"

[Beam Me Up]

6. Ain't gona happen. They don't care. They really don't!

[Piperay]

8. They don't

because they believe in The Rapture and are hoping to bring about the end of the World...seriously. :-(

[cassiepriam]

9. The death of a planet and civilization is not on their radar screen

They only wake up to pass out money to Halliburton
and to go to fundraisers.