Real Climate? - I think not.

Here's a comment that I posted on RealClimate which has not appeared. Presumable that is because it does not say: "Thank you for giving us hope,...", "Wonderfully hopeful.", "Thank you.", or "David, thanks ..." all which appear in the first 6 published comments. I thought scientists were supposed to be sceptical. The lot replying to RealClimate just seem to be sycophants.

Anyway, RealClimate's latest epistle is entitled “Irreversible Does Not Mean Unstoppable”. It discusses a paper in PNAS by Susan Solomon et al. which "shows that the climate change that takes place due to increases in carbon dioxide concentration is largely irreversible for 1,000 years after emissions stop. " David Archer's spin is that once we stop emitting fossil fuels the increase in temperate will stop. So we need not be terrified by Susan Solomon's paper.

What I wrote was:
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Well, all I can say is that you have excelled yourselves in this post. It is nothing but denialist rubbish. You state:

"It is not really news scientifically that atmospheric CO2 concentration stays higher than natural for thousands of years after emission of new CO2 to the carbon cycle from fossil fuels. "

So that is all right then. We don’t have to worry unless the levels of greenhouse gases increase. How are you going to prevent that? Stop burning all fossil fuels? That is the only way!

The Arctic sea ice is retreating and the glaciers are melting worldwide. This will reduce global albedo and raise sea level temperatures, so the oceans will release more CO2 even if we stop adding fossil fuels now.

When are you going to face up to the fact that the world is heading for disaster. Unless we take panic measures we are all doomed.

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Perhaps I have been too hard on the poor boy who was only trying to counter the real sceptics and deniers who are now claiming it is too late. But all this pussyfooting with public opinion has been going on for too long. The IPCC may have achieved a Nobel Prize but the have singularly fail to get any action from the worlds leading greenhouse gas producers: China, India and the US. In fact since the Kyoto treaty was drawn up the US has increased it emissions of CO2 by an amount equal to the total emissions of the UK.

There is a little hope. Barak Obama seems to be moving towards taking action, but he cannot do all that needs doing without the backing of Congress. Congress only respond to their voters and the voters, Congressmen and Senators must be told how serious the problem is.

Cheers, Alastair.