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News & Views item - April 2007 |
The Royal Society Takes up the Cudgels to Give the Lie to the Arguments Put Forward in
Channel 4's Recent Great Global Warming
Swindle Programme
(April 11, 2007) The
Royal Society in a media release dated April 10 says,
Science
has established that it is very likely that ever increasing levels of
carbon dioxide emissions from energy plants, other industry, cars, and
airplanes along with deforestation are the crucial factors that have
caused global average temperature increases over recent decades. Other
factors do play a part but they cannot explain, on their own, the recent
changes which threaten to fundamentally damage the world of tomorrow. The following six
arguments are addressed:
Click here to get the Royal Society's take
Those who seek to distort and undermine the science of climate change and
deny the seriousness of the potential consequences of global warming put
forward a range of arguments most of which misrepresent the existing
research. It is vital that the scientific evidence on climate change is
accurately represented.
Policymakers, industry and the public must make informed decisions about
what actions to take rather than be misinformed by lobbyists for big
business or programmes such as Channel 4's recent 'Great Global Warming
Swindle'.
The Royal Society has put together a review of some of these arguments in
order to present an accurate account of what the weight of scientific
evidence tells us.
Debate is crucial to science and the book will never close on the science
of climate change. It is important that all aspects are adequately and
thoroughly explored. However, the science is now convincing enough that to
take no action on reducing carbon dioxide emissions would be irresponsible
and very dangerous.