Readers may recall University of London’s emeritus professor of biogeography Philip Stott, and his famous quote during a debate about politicians and their vain attempts to control the climate:
“Angela Merkel the German chancellor, my own good prime minister (Tony Blair) for whom I voted — let me emphasize, arguing in public two weeks ago as to who in Annie get the gun style could produce the best temperature. ‘I could do two degrees C said Angela.’ ‘No, I could only do three said Tony.’ [LAUGHTER] Stand back a minute, those are politicians, telling you that they can control climate to a degree Celsius.”
“And can I remind everybody that IPCC that we keep talking about, very honestly admits that we know very little about 80% of the factors behind climate change. Well let’s use an engineer; I don’t think I’d want to cross Brooklyn Bridge if it were built by an engineer who only understood 80% of the forces on that bridge. [LAUGHTER]”
Well it looks like they are back to their old tricks:
Leaders of the world’s major industrialised nations (G8) have reportedly agreed to carbon emission cuts that would limit global warming to no more than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
Has the world gone completely mad! These cretins can’t even manage their own budgets, so how do they seriously think they can manage the Earth’s climate? It’s like a far fetch script written for a B-grade Hollywood movie. And the worst part is that so many people honestly believe that our political leaders can manipulate the Earth’s climate to suit national objectives.