And they call themselves leaders!
G8 announcement as printed in Dominion Post 10 July
No, it is not a mobile telephone ad. It is a new benchmark in political mis-information.
The Dominion Post today carried a reprint of an article from The Times detailing a fatuous announcement from the G8 Summit in Italy.
This announcement proves that ‘our leaders’ really are stupid. Not only does it emerge later in the article that this is only a ‘target’ which they have signed up to, there is no guarantee that either India or China will go along with it.
In addition, there is not a snowball in hell’s chance of this ‘maximum’ ever being achieved. Centuries ago King Canute proved to his courtiers that a King could not hold back the tide. The story is often misrepresented as Canute trying to hold back the tide, when what he was seeking to do was to show that power had it’s limits.
However, the G8 do not appear to have the wisdom of Canute and are now trying to tell us that they can settle what the maximum temperature increase will be decades from now.
Is there no end to their stupidity?
A moment of thought will tell one that any increase cannot be forecast or controlled to that degree of exactitude.
And they call themselves leaders!
This will last until people start losing jobs because of the need to cut economic activity. So even if the recession ends it is possible trying to meet this target will bring on another one.
So maybe it should have been a mobile phone ad, at least Rhys Darby raises a laugh!
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Found this link this morning. Every year since 1951, there has been a meeting of Nobel prize winners in Lindau, Bavaria, Germany.
Seven Nobel prize winners participated in a climate debate. How did it look like? Well, there may be a climate consensus among the high-school dropouts but there is none among the Nobel prize winners. There was one more difference. Many of the Nobel prize winners said, unlike the high-school dropouts, the following sentence: “I am no expert.”
Ivar Giaever (Norway), the 1973 Nobel prize winner for superconductivity (he was essential to master electron tunneling in superconductors and shared the physics award with Esaki and Josephson), was asked how the world should tackle climate change. The following quote accurately matches the content but it was shortened and edited:
“First of all, I didn’t volunteer to be on this panel. Second of all, I am a skeptic, as I told you yesterday. Third of all, if I am Norwegian, should I really worry about a little bit of warming? I am unfortunately becoming an old man. We have heard many similar warnings about the acid rain 30 years ago and the ozone hole 10 years ago or deforestation but the humanity is still around. The ozone hole width has peaked in 1993.
Moreover, global warming has become a new religion. We frequently hear about the number of scientists who support it. But the number is not important: only those who are correct are important. We don’t really know what the actual effect on the global temperature is. There are better ways to spend the money [question period],” he referred to a lecture about poverty by Hans Rosling (Sweden) that heavily relied on my favorite Gapminder: well, he is the director of the Gapminder Foundation.
Read more at
http://motls.blogspot.com/2008/07/lindau-half-of-nobel-prize-winners-are.html
and based on the ill-considered assumption that they can control it anyway…..
Adam
I am still shaking my head in disbelief. My brow is furrowed and I keep thinking (and hoping) that it is all a bad dream. Ridiculous schemes are dreamt up by the bureaucrats that our leaders obviously do not understand. IMHO, they are away on too many junkets, the “socialising” will be responsible for their addled brains.
G K Chesterton said “If you believe in nothing, you’ll believe in anything.”
“That’s what we see today. People believe in anything.”
It defies any logic I know of