Das Internet-Öko-Magazin „greener ideal“ gibt mit einem Artikel vom 25. Februar 2014 Rätsel auf:
Surviving Climate Change – By Genetically Altering You
[…] Could the high-tech scientific world genetically alter a future version of you to survive climate change? […] Although there is much debate about who is to blame for climate change, the real issue is our very survival as a species. Over 280,000 people have died in the United Kingdom so far, due to the dramatically brutal winter they are experiencing this season. That’s pretty close to the estimated 300,000 people globally that die every year from climate change, according to a United Nations Global Humanitarian Forum report. […] But what if instead of focusing on making us stronger, faster and smarter, genetic researchers tried to make us more resistant to the effects of climate change? […] Not that re-engineering people is the complete solution. If we can figure out how to make us faster, smarter, stronger, and more resilient to the effects of climate change, we should also be smart enough to reduce our impact on the planet. Genetically modifying people may give us the ability to deal with our planet’s natural climatic changes, so that we have the time to resolve the damage we’ve already caused our planet. Although over hundreds of thousands of years we may evolve to be faster, smarter and stronger, because of our impact on the Earth, we don’t have that long to wait.Ganzen Artikel auf greenerideal.com lesen.
Dolles Ding: Ein Klimaalarmist macht den Vorschlag, dass wir bei der menschlichen Fortpflanzung gentechnisch eingreifen sollten, um uns gegen die unmittelbar bevorstehende Klimakatastrophe zu wappnen. Ein schönes Lobbyistenstück. Interessant zu sehen, wozu das Bild der Klimaapokalypse nicht alles nützlich ist.
Eine etwas andere Klimastrategie fährt dagegen die Designerin Vivienne Westwood. Sie schnitt sich jetzt die Haare ab, um auf den Klimawandel aufmerksam zu machen. Da will auch das kalte-Sonne-Team nicht untätig bleiben. So ließ Sebastian Lüning im Februar seine Haare ungehemmt frei wachsen, um für die vom IPCC vernachlässigten natürlichen Klimafaktoren zu demonstrieren.
Wiederum eine andere Aktion haben sich jetzt die Demokraten aus dem US-Senat ausgedacht. Sie haben kürzlich eine ganze Nacht über den Klimawandel diskutiert. Dass sie damit dem Klima mehr geschadet als geholfen haben, war ihnen wohl unklar. Der Strom zur Beleuchtung des Sitzungszimmers hat zusätzliche CO2-Mengen in die Atmosphäre entlassen, die ansonsten hätten vermieden werden können. Nicht umsonst hatte die japanische Regierung ihre Bürger vor einiger Zeit aus Klimaschutzgründen dazu aufgefordert, früher schlafen zu gehen.
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Top Ten-Listen sind schon immer beliebt gewesen. Eine ganz neue Top-Ten-Aufstellung gibt es jetzt auf WUWT mit den zehn beliebtesten Theorien, warum es – Teufel nochmal – seit 1998 nicht mehr wärmer geworden ist:
- New study claims low solar activity caused “the pause” in global temperature – but AGW will return!
- THE OCEANS ATE OUR GLOBAL WARMING! Trenberth and Fasullo, 2013. But the heat will come back when you least expect it.
- Chinese coal caused the ‘pause’, published in the proceedings of the National Academy of Science. The study blamed Chinese coal use for the lack of global warming. Global warming proponents essentially claimed that coal use is saving us from dangerous global warming. Kaufmann et al 2011.
- The Montreal Protocol caused the ‘pause‘, which reduced CFC’s – but warming will return soon. Estrada 2013.
- Cowtan and Way’s (2013) underrepresented Arctic stations get adjustment to fiddle the numbers so that ‘pause’ never existed, but not so fast. It seems all isn’t quite as it seems. Dr. Judith Curry doesn’t think much of it either.
- Volcanic aerosols, not pollutants, tamped down recent Earth warming, says CU study – Neely et al March 2013: A team led by the University of Colorado Boulder looking for clues about why Earth did not warm as much as scientists expected between 2000 and 2010 now thinks the culprits are hiding in plain sight — dozens of volcanoes spewing sulfur dioxide.
- Contributions of Stratospheric Water Vapor to Decadal Changes in the Rate of Global Warming. Solomon et al, 2010 Science Magazine.: Stratospheric water vapor concentrations decreased by about 10% after the year 2000. Here we show that this acted to slow the rate of increase in global surface temperature over 2000–2009 by about 25% compared to that which would have occurred due only to carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.’
- Slower Pacific Trade winds caused the pause England Et al 2014. A paper published today in Nature Climate Change adds the eighth excuse for the ‘pause’ in global warming: strengthened Pacific trade winds, which according to the authors, were “not captured [simulated] by climate models.” On the basis of those same highly-flawed climate models, the authors predict rapid global warming will resume in a decade or so when those trade winds abate. But in 2006, we were told the opposite.
- Stadium Waves. Wyatt and Curry 2013. ‘Stadium waves’ could explain lull in global warming. Not un-plausible.
- “Coincidence, conspired to dampen warming trends” Schmidt et al 2014. NASA’s Gavin Schmidt et al says: ‘Here we argue that a combination of factors, by coincidence, conspired to dampen warming trends in the real world after about 1992. CMIP5 model simulations were based on historical estimates of external influences on the climate only to 2000 or 2005, and used scenarios (Representative Concentration Pathways, or RCPs) thereafter.’
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Überraschung in Zeiten der drohenden Klimakatastrophe: Der US-Winter 2013/2014 war der zweitkälteste der gesamten vergangenen 35 Jahre, wie Roy Spencer in seinem Blog zeigt.
