Ah joy. In the name of ‘balance’, I guess, the ABC is about to give Australian viewers the privilege of watching ‘the great global warming swindle’ [TGGWS] – a ‘documentary’ that supposedly exposes the ‘fraud’ of global warming, and the great anti-development conspiracy that underpins it.
Oh, and which 99% climate scientists belong to, of course.
‘Global warming’ is a kind of unfortunate catch phrase, that can be deconstructed far too easily. For example, you can point at East Antarctica, which isn’t really warming at all. However, a few thousand kilometres away, the Antarctic Peninsula is getting quite a bit warmer – at least since we’ve been measuring. The real story is more complex – as discussed in this National Geographic article. Some warming, some cooling…
Anyway, here’s a decent rebuttal of TGGWS. Have a read, form an opinion.
Whichever way you cut the climate cake, the bottom line is that us homo sapiens are rapidly trashing this little planet. The good news is that we can do something about it pretty easily. Do you *really* need that new [insert product here]? Can you walk there instead of driving?
Simple stuff, really.