[Osx-nutters] The century of drought

[Kevin Callahan]

On Oct 4, 2006, at 8:19 AM, Shawn Erickson wrote:

>
> On Oct 3, 2006, at 10:41 PM, Kevin Callahan wrote:
>
>>
>> <http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article1786829.ece>
>> The century of drought
>
> "Senior Met Office scientists are sensitive about the study, funded  
> by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs,  
> stressing it contains uncertainties: there is only one climate  
> model involved, one future scenario for emissions of greenhouse  
> gases (a moderate-to-high one) and one drought index."
>
> To bad the study is based on limited modeling. The use of 2 or 3  
> different climate models across a range of emission profiles would  
> have been very informative. I hope they expand the study in the  
> future.
>
> -Shawn

so what's your gut feeling (all science aside) ?

Global warming yes ? no?
If yes, human contribution ?
If human contribution, should we do something about it ?
or is it better for business and economy we "stay the course" ?

K


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