your right it is interesting.
I would not go as far as to say it is immediately catastrophic In this type of work you must state the worst case scenario to get a reaction. The claim that it’s just a bunch of hoo-ha created to aid "corporations who will reap a financial windfall from a switch to alternative fuel sources" is downplaying how serious things can become. Think about it if some will go as far to exaggerate the evidence to make money, Others will down play it enough to continue making money.
Financial gains and losses aside. Future generations will either gain or lose from what we choose to believe now and the choices we make today.
Singer wrote, "Sea level will continue to rise by only seven inches per century as it has for thousands of years no matter what we do or what the EPA [U.S. Environmental Protection Agency] says. And temperatures in the next 100 years will likely rise by less than one degree F--not exactly a catastrophe." '
http://today.reuters.com/investing/f...30_N27391356:1
^^^ In reading that article Singer really believes that with the growing global population and the increased demand for fuel and amount of gases released in the atmosphere that the global temp won’t increase more than the 1 degree F, much less in the 100yrs he’s talking about. When making sugar art, if your heating temp or cooling temp is off by one degree it can spell disaster for your culinary art piece. The balance is just that delicate that maybe one degree should be taken into consideration (Will be back to give more environmental examples of how 1 degree can make a world of change)
vvv If the intensity of the cosmic rays is what drives the earth’s climate, How would the increase in CO2 and other solar energy trapping green house gases affect the climate if the cosmic ray intensity is increasing?
"The controlling driver of global temperature fluctuations, according to Dr. Benny Peiser of England's John Moore's University, is solar ray activity. "Six eminent researchers from the Russian Academy of Science and the Israel Space Agency have just published a startling paper in one of the world's leading space science journals. The team of solar physicists claims to have come up with compelling evidence that changes in cosmic ray intensity and variations in solar activity have been driving much of the Earth's climate," Peiser was quoted as saying in the May 17 National Post.]The controlling driver of global temperature fluctuations, according to Dr. Benny Peiser of England's John Moore's University, is solar ray activity. "Six eminent researchers from the Russian Academy of Science and the Israel Space Agency have just published a startling paper in one of the world's leading space science journals. The team of solar physicists claims to have come up with compelling evidence that changes in cosmic ray intensity and variations in solar activity have been driving much of the Earth's climate," Peiser was quoted as saying in the May 17 National Post."
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