Dave, you and Mark Carney are spot on. Most people don't want to put effort into something that does not directly lead to them getting a benefit i.e. physical, mental or spiritual enjoyment.

At last we have a member of the establishment stating that 'bad things will happen' unless we change the status quo.

A good start would be renewable energy replacing fossil fuels and halting the destruction of the rainforests.

We need people to start rattling politicians and get them to stop giving subsidies for fossil fuel power generation.

Cheers

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/26/extreme-heatwaves-could-push-gulf-climate-beyond-human-endurance-study-shows?CMP=fb_a-environment_b-gdnenvironment#comment-62191448

And lots of uninformed comments following the article!

Did climate change cause that heat wave? That hurricane? That drought?

A new collection of studies examined extreme weather events last year, including drought, floods and storms, to look for signs that climate change was a cause or contributor. The papers are part of a broader effort to recognize the effects of climate change as the world warms, and to tease out those factors from other possible causes of extreme events.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/06/science/climate-change-extreme-weather-global-warming.html

Note the link to World Weather Attribution (WWA), which includes Oxford.

Global average temperature rise passes half-way point to scientists' predicted 2C danger point:
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/nov/09/worlds-climate-about-to-enter-uncharted-territory-as-it-passes-1c-of-warming

Myles Allen, among others, is mentioned.

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"We have met the enemy and he is us." -- Pogo
Greetings from coastal Washington state, the scenic US Pacific Northwest.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/11/16/1450700/-El-Ni-o-Does-Something-It-s-Never-Done-Before-Watch-Out-California Ocean temps i region causing el nino at record high.

Warmer ocean temperatures worsened Queensland's deadly 2011 floods: study

While too early to blame this event on climate change, the centuries do seem to be flashing by with these one in a hundred year events. http://www.theguardian.com/environment/live/2015/dec/07/storm-desmond-cameron-to-chair-emergency-meeting-live-updates#comment-64673745

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/dec/11/storm-desmond-rainfall-flooding-partly-due-to-climate-change-scientists-conclude

Both Oxford and Netherlands get a mention in this.

North Pole looking at temps over 40C above normal! http://robertscribbler.com/2015/12/27/warm-arctic-storm-to-hurl-hurricane-force-winds-at-uk-and-iceland-push-temps-to-72-degrees-f-above-normal-at-north-pole/

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jan/05/aliso-canyon-leak-california-climate-change

I don't notice the outcry that there was over BP's rig on this one.

Oil well leaks are more visible especially when they are in sensitive marine areas.

And apparently we've now entered a new Epoch: the Anthropocene.
Or not. Depends on who one listens to.

'Case is made' for Anthropocene Epoch

Wikipedia

Global warming could stave off next ice age for 100,000 years

Global warming is likely to disrupt a natural cycle of ice ages and contribute to delaying the onset of the next big freeze until about 100,000 years from now, scientists have suggested.

They said the planet seemed naturally on track to escape an ice age for the next 50,000 years, an unusually long period of warmth, according to the study led by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and published in the journal Nature.

But rising man-made greenhouse gas emissions since the Industrial Revolution began in the 18th century could mean the balmy period will last for 100,000 years.

climate change satellite successfully launched.

Climate change: Global temperatures in 2015 by far hottest in modern times, science agencies say

Global temperatures in 2015 were by far the hottest in modern times, according to new data from American science agencies.

"During 2015, the average temperature across global land and ocean surfaces was 0.90 Celsius above the 20th century average," the NOAA report said.

"This was the highest among all years in the 1880 to 2015 record [and also] the largest margin by which the annual global temperature record has been broken."

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/environment/article4672338.ece
Ben Webster Environment Editor Published at 12:01AM, January 23 2016

A leading climate sceptic businessman has protested that he was misinformed after losing what he described as a �mug�s bet� with a scientist over global warming.
Sir Alan Rudge, the former deputy chief executive of BT, has accepted he will have to pay �1,000 to Chris Hope, of the University of Cambridge, after 2015 turned out to be the warmest year on record. However, he claimed that he misunderstood the terms of the bet when agreeing to it in 2011.
Sir Alan, a former member of the government�s scientific advisory committee, bet that the global average temperature in 2015 would be more than 0.1C cooler than 2008. In fact it was 0.35C warmer.
He said he did not realise that the year proposed as the baseline for the bet was the coldest year this century, meaning that Dr Hope �could not lose�.
Sir Alan had thought that 2008 was the warmest year and when he realised his mistake he wrote to Dr Hope querying the terms. Dr Hope offered him the chance to withdraw but added that he wanted to copy in two other scientists �so that they can see our useful exchange of views whether the wager goes ahead or not�.
Sir Alan said he decided to continue despite realising that he was very likely to lose. �I was under some pressure . . . the sceptical view was under attack and there was a good possibility that capital would be made of my withdrawal,� he said. �Anyone who dares to question the current orthodoxy is labelled a �denier� and every effort is made to silence them.�
Sir Alan said the bet had originally been agreed between Dr Hope and Ian Plimer, a geology professor at the University of Adelaide.
Sir Alan and Dr Plimer are both members of the academic advisory council of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, the climate sceptic think tank.
Dr Plimer could not be contacted yesterday to comment on whether he also intended to pay up after losing the bet with Dr Hope.
Sir Alan said he remained sceptical about the threat from man-made global warming, adding that Dr Hope should make clear that he had only won the bet because last year�s temperature was boosted by the natural El Ni�o weather phenomenon.
�You could say I was the mug for taking the bet. I feel a bit stupid about it,� said Sir Alan. �Lucky Chris Hope � and a lesson for all who would gamble on the planet�s unpredictable weather to look carefully at the terms before signing up!�
In 2010, Sir Alan led a group of scientists who forced the Royal Society, of which they were members, to review what they considered to be its �alarmist� position on climate change.

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Climate change will get you one way or the other.

The worrying thing is that someone so easily taken in by this sucker bet was a scientific adviser to the government.

New calculations shows there is just a 0.01% chance that recent run of global heat records could have happened due to natural climate variations.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jan/25/record-hot-years-near-impossible-without-manmade-climate-change-study

:)
Climate change will get you one way or the other.

Every punter with a foolproof system for betting against the Monte Carlo house odds is likely to send the same message:
"The betting system is working - send more money."

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