Archive for April 6th, 2015

Dyson: 'There certainly is an enormous religion in which there are lots of true believers who think that climate change is evil and that we're going to run into big catastrophes if we don't do something drastic. That's a sort of belief system which exists...I don't understand it and I don't pretend to understand their motives.'

Christiana Figueres, the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC)

“Obviously less people would exert less pressure on the natural resources,” Figueres answered, also noting that estimates suggest the Earth’s population will rise to nine billion by 2050.

Dalton then questioned whether that figure could in some way be stalled or halted.

“So is nine billion a forgone conclusion? That’s like baked in, done, no way to change that?” he asked Figueres.

“There is pressure in the system to go toward that; we can definitely change those, right? We can definitely change those numbers,” Figueres said in response.

“Really, we should make every effort to change those numbers because we are already, today, already exceeding the planet’s planetary carrying capacity.” she also claimed.

Satellites reveal temperature standstill increases  - No global warming for 18 years 4 months

(Also see: It’s Official – There are now 66 excuses for Temp ‘pause’ – Updated list of 66 excuses for the 18-26 year ‘pause’ in global warming)

'Both satellite datasets have been released for March, and show a drop in global temperatures for the second month running. According to both UAH and RSS,current temperatures are now below where they were at the start of last year.  1998 and 2010 temperatures remain well above anything seen in the last year.'