SCIENTISTS ATTRIBUTE EXTREME
WEATHER TO MAN-MADE CLIMATE CHANGE
WEATHER TO MAN-MADE CLIMATE CHANGE
www.guardian.co.uk
- Climate change researchers have been able to attribute
recent examples of extreme weather to the effects of human activity on
the planet's climate systems for the first time, marking a major step
forward in climate research. The findings make it much more likely that
we will soon - within the next few years - be able to discern whether
the extremely wet and cold summer and spring so far experienced in the
UK this year are attributable to human causes rather than luck,
according to the researchers. Last year's record warm November in the UK - the second hottest since records began in 1659 - was at least 60 times more likely to happen because of climate change than owing to natural variations in the earth's weather systems, according to the peer-reviewed studies by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the US, and the Met Office in the UK. The devastating heatwave that blighted farmers in Texas in the US last year, destroying crop yields in another record "extreme weather event", was about 20 times more likely to have happened owing to climate change than to natural variation.
Attributing
individual weather events, such as floods, droughts and heatwaves, to
human-induced climate change - rather than natural variation in the
planet's complex weather systems - has long been a goal of climate
change scientists. But the difficulty of separating the causation of
events from the background "noise" of the variability in the earth's
climate systems has until now made such attribution an elusive goal. To
attribute recent extreme weather events - rather than events 10 years
ago or more - to human-caused climate change is a big advance, and will
help researchers to provide better warnings of the likely effects of
climate change in the near future. This is likely to have major
repercussions on climate change policy and the ongoing efforts to adapt
to the probable effects of global warming. Peter Stott, of the UK's Met
Office, said: "We are much more confident about attributing [weather
effects] to climate change. This is all adding up to a stronger and
stronger picture of human influence on the climate." But the key
question - of whether man-made global warming is putting a dampener on
British summers - will take several years to solve, according to Stott.
WHAT DO THE VEDIC TEACHINGS TELL US?
Today
we see the condition of the world. Never before in history has the
world been in a more dangerous situation. We have made progress through
technology and science. We have cured diseases such as small pox. Made
vaccinations for polio. Made breakthrough in open heart surgeries to
keep people living after major heart attacks. These are good things. But
at the same time, what are we doing on the other side. We are creating
other diseases due to pollution and other unnatural styles. ... due to
the green house effect the polar ice caps are melting. It’s creating
already dramatic and tragic climatic changes. ... We take the gifts of
mother nature and due to our perverted ignorance, we utilize those gifts
to create weapons of mass destruction which are meant to massacre the
children of mother earth.Śrīla Radhanath Swami Mahārāja :
“The Real Significance of Bhumi Puja”
“Most Precarious Situation in Humanity”
At Govardhan Farm, Wada - 2nd October 2009
http://www.radhanathmaharaj.net/node/80
http://www.radhanath-swami.net/ - http://radhanathswami.info
Published by dasavatara das - "Vedic Views on World News"
http://www.vedicviews-worldnews.blogspot.com.ar/
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