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September 24, 2005

Moonbat Alert: Professor Sir John Lawton

On the one hand we have the human tragedy in the SOuthern United States and on the other hand we have Storms should wake up neo-cons: scientistmoonbat:

The violence of hurricanes Rita and Katrina should at last awake the Bush Administration to the danger of climate change, a leading British scientist said.
Professor Sir John Lawton, chairman of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, said the intensity of the hurricanes was caused by water in the Gulf of Mexico being warmer than usual and was consistent with the latest scientific predictions of how the climate will behave as a result of man-made warming.
"If this makes the climate loonies in the States realise we've got a problem, something good will come out of this situation," Sir John told a meeting of the commission in London.
"It's a fair conclusion to draw that global warming, caused to a substantial extent by people - we already know that - is driving increased sea surface temperatures and therefore increasing the violence of hurricanes. "Increasingly it looks like it's a smoking gun."
Sir John is the third of a triumvirate of Britain's most senior scientists to berate the Bush Administration for lack of urgency in tackling climate change, the others being Lord May, president of the Royal Society, and Professor Sir David King, the Prime Minister's chief scientific adviser.

Let me distinguish between fact, speculation and fantasy using no more than schoolboy science:
  • Facts:
    • There is increased sea temperature in the Gulf of Mexico

    • This is believed (based on reasonable science) to increase the hurricane risk

  • Speculation:
    • The localised rise of sea temperature is caused by a world wide climate change

    • This climate change may be the result of human behaviour

  • Fantasy:
    • It is all Bush's fault - he personally is heating up the atmosphere and causing these hurricanes because these people didn't vote for him

The fact of the matter is that Bush is not personally responsible for every tragedy that occurs around the globe, he simply doesn't have that much power - no matter what the raving loonies claim. Nor did his predecessor. If global warming is purely a result of human behaviour (and the jury seems to still be debating the matter), then resolving the problem is a worldwide matter - not the responsibility of one leader in one country. I know that the moonbats are going to say that the problem is the failure of the USA (and Australia) to comply with the Kyoto Protocol - but guess what ....

  1. Signing the protocol will not cure the problem - it will just give whiners something else to whinge about

  2. The protocol is not binding on those countries which are likely to be causing the greatest emissions in the future

How about instead of bleating, these bleeding-heart moonbats get and and do something about. Come up with a solution that does not involve blaming someone else. Find a constructive answer that can work with a concerted effort by everyone instead of a bureaucratic tangle of red tape that just fingers the one person that all moonbats love to hate.

Oh yeah, while you are still all hot under the collar about what I say, answer me this: would the hurricanes still have happened if Bush was not elected?

Posted by Ozguru at September 24, 2005 10:00 PM

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