This is how the French Prof. Jean Josel, one of the most prominent researchers in the field of environmental sciences, recently defined the state of climate change. * The Paris climate change conference that opens today is a great opportunity to talk about the environmental challenges and the opportunities we have to deal with them. The fake science, the stupid statements of disconnected royals and the petty squabbles of politicians over flight arrangements should be left for another time
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"All the warning lights are already flashing - now we just need someone to start taking them seriously", this is how the French professor Jean-Joselle, one of the most prominent researchers in the field of environmental sciences, recently defined the state of climate change. Indeed, those who follow the scientific publications in recent years know very well that scientists are already warning about the great dangers inherent in climate change: extreme weather events, air pollution, rising sea levels, damage to coral reefs, acidification of oceans, damage to the food web and biodiversity, and many more problems , threats and problems.
In fact, the scientists are signaling and warning with such vigor about climate change that even the politicians, who are not always gifted with sharp senses on issues that do not directly affect their performance at the polls, have started to take notice. Contrary to what was customary in similar conferences held in the past (Copenhagen 2009, for example), the UN conference on climate change that opens today in Paris is a large, important, requested, surveyed and most important international event: it has a serious potential to bring about a real change in the situation. World leaders will come to Paris not only to win a good opportunity for a photo with Obama or Putin, but to commit to reducing emissions of pollutants into the atmosphere and delaying global warming. This is an interest that everyone shares and one that many are aware of its importance now - that's why the Paris conference can succeed where similar conferences have failed in the past.
What we, those who do not have a place in the conferences, sessions, conventions and cocktails and therefore must watch what happens at the conference from the side, is to take what happens there seriously. This is not an easy task. There are those who want to confuse us with Half-baked facts and trends in an attempt to tattoo the clear and decisive voice of the scientific community. There are those who take advantage of this large central stage to create background noise and fuel unrelated political disputes (such as Flight arrangements of the politicians who will participate in the conference). And there are those who will choose to highlight the absurd statements of irrelevant figures just to mock the serious discussion (as in the case of the announcement by Prince Charles, the British heir to the throne, that global terrorism is A direct result of climate change).
In two weeks there will be plenty of time for conspiracy theories, political reckoning and comedic moments of respite. In the meantime, let's try to focus mainly on: what science says about climate change, and what we (conservatives and liberals, rightists and leftists, greens and non-greens, capitalists and socialists, leaders and small citizens) can do to deal with it. Not all solutions and steps are simple, easy and pre-agreed on by everyone, that's clear, but this time it seems that the world is really ready to deal seriously with climate change. Let's not disturb him with nonsense and unnecessary chatter.
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Nostradamus
How many times does a father have to ask you not to embarrass him? Papa Nostradamus is very angry.
Nostradamus
Don't argue without understanding what you are talking about. Do you even know what a Milankovitch cycle is? Do you even know why the earth was supposed to be cooling now?
Please take your pseudo-knowledge elsewhere.
Notre Dame
I don't understand the field. But I saw the graphs of the increase in the concentration of PADH in ATM: the increase in the graph is not gradual at all. She is very sharp!!!
Absolutely not, with the exception of short periods of cooling due to the sun and volcanic eruptions, there is a clear and gradual trend of warming as a result of exiting the ice age, and this is a natural cycle, and if the dinosaurs thrived with much larger amounts of carbon dioxide and heat, man will also survive and the vegetation will thrive... and the rest is demagoguery And a hesitant puppet of the new green religion.
Nostradamus
In the time of the dinosaurs there were also dinosaurs. What does it have to do with what is happening now? The earth is warming, that's a fact. It was supposed to be in a cooling trend (Milankovitch cycle). We know how to measure how much human gas emits, and we know how to calculate how much energy this gas absorbs as a function of time. Experiments confirm the calculations.
It's really simple, just a shame it doesn't match your primitive agenda.
Haim F, during the time of the dinosaurs there were no glaciers at all and there were rainforests at the poles, now we are still in an ice age.
Stop listening to the lies of the interested parties.
Nostradamus
Are you embarrassing yourself again?
Nostradamus
You are getting boring.
And every word is correct.
Broadly speaking, I can explain the problem to laymen:
The average temperature on the surface of the globe is increasing.
Conclusion: the heat balance on the surface of the ball is positive. That is: more heat enters than leaves.
The heat on the surface of the globe comes from the sun, burning fuels, and volcanic eruptions.
The cooling comes from the projection of the Earth out into space.
Since the temperature is rising, it means that we are getting more heat than usual, or that somehow we are preventing the ball from cooling down. Apparently both statements are true. We burn more fuels, and the greenhouse gases increase - preventing proper cooling of the air.
In my opinion, the situation is even more serious than what the distinguished professor expresses. The glaciers are melting (proof: the sea level is rising) when the glaciers all melt - our air conditioner will break down. Do you know what the temperature is on the surface of Venus? 500 degrees. It's too hot for steak.
The politicians must internalize. Leave it to petty politics, to the stupid fights of left and right, socialist and capitalist, secular and religious. We must all work together to eradicate the problem before it destroys us.
And also a way to divert and drug the multitude from the real problems, which are the Islamization of the world and the anarchy and deliberate de-modernization of the global left
'Climate change' is a colossal and money-squeezing scam similar to the invention of the 'Palestinian people'