TalkClimateChange

My life was made easy today when Leo Hickman of The Guardian Climate Change blog wrote a great post expressing many of the sentiments that I frequently write about here.

So rather than trying to write one of those difficult Monday posts myself I’ll simply give you Leo’s opening and closing statements (which could have been made for TalkClimateChange), and invite you to go and read his complete post.

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, here comes along James Hansen, head of the Nasa Goddard Institute for Space Studies and one of the world’s most respected climate scientists (except in the White House), with an even more depressing assessment of how climate change will unravel over the coming decades - if, that is, we don’t act fast to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions.

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As I argued recently, when James Lovelock presented a similarly depressing forecast (in summary: we’re screwed, so we might as well enjoy it while we can), I believe we obviously shouldn’t be shielded from what the scientists are telling us, but that we do need to move quickly towards also having a much louder and determined dialogue about the solutions otherwise there will be a collective "switch off" on this issue and the only thing that will then stir us from our slumber, as Lovelock predicts, will be a climate change-induced disaster that gravely affects the western world.

Thanks Leo. We’ll be back with our own ideas tomorrow..

Happy Monday’s..