Climate Change isn’t Gloom and Doom

Interesting perspective.  We would agree the future looks bright given our collaboration about accelerating our push from a fossil-fuel economy to one driven by clean energy.  We see this challenge more as a 7 trillion dollar financial boom than a catostrophic enivronmental disaster (we hope, anyway).

We will try to book Mr Somerville on the radio show.

Climate Change isn’t Gloom and Doom Issue, says Climatologist Richard Somerville

Written by Tanya Campbell

Undoubtedly, climate change is a real phenomenon and our planet is warming rapidly. Due to climate change, many changes in weather patterns have been noticed across the world. Many studies and climate scientists have shown a fearsome forecast of climate change. However, climatologist Richard Somerville offers hopeful outlook for the planet’s worsening conditions.

Richard Somerville, a climatologist and professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, has noticed a glimmer of light amid climate change’s depressing predictions. On Thursday, the professor will have a discussion at University of California, San Diego, on global warming.

Earth’s temperature is rising continuously and many regions on the planet are experiencing ill-effects of global warming, but it doesn’t mean conditions cannot be improved, said Somerville. It’s a serious issue, but not a gloom and doom issue, he added. Somerville believes the world has realized that climate change is happening and steps that different nations are taking to deal with it are in the right direction.Somerville will guide people how to deal with climate change in his talk named ‘Climate Change: Strong Science, Forceful Actions, Positive Outcomes’.

In a statement, Somerville said, “I really want to do several things, including cover the status of climate science and then I’m going to talk about the task ahead and what the world needs to find a way to do, in order to limit climate change to moderate levels, and not let it spiral out of control”.

The climate expert will also tell what he feels about the Paris climate talks. According to him, there are no strict mechanisms, but still it is a good first step to combat global warming. The Paris talks last fall alone has achieved more than what other previous climate talks accomplished together, Somerville said.

Governments have a plan to reduce CO2 and other harmful gases that are harming earth’s environment, and continued. It is very hopeful, he added.

A report published in Goskagit revealed, "The more accurate way to discuss the issue is to use "global warming." That phrase emphasizes that it is a global temperature increase over thousands of years, and this occurs roughly every 100,000 years. We are in an intergalactic warm period and should be thankful. Glaciers are not covering half of the U.S."

Those that would like to be really informed about the scientific facts of the case need to do a little research of their own. I can suggest a search for Easterbrook, Salby and Tim Ball. The latter has a book called "The Deliberate Corruption of Climate Science" that demonstrates how this all developed. It stems from the exaggerated claims of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

"Science can flourish when experts disagree, but in the governmental realm uncertainty can lead to inadequate policy and preparedness. When it comes to climate change, it can be OK for computational models to differ on what future sea levels will be. The same flexibility does not exist for determining the height of a seawall needed to protect people from devastating floods," according to a news report published by EurekAlert.

"Scientists working in climate change know that the models used throughout climate research have shortcomings. At the same time policymakers need to know the future of sea-level rise, and they need as robust a prediction as we can give," said Michael Oppenheimer, Princeton's Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs and the Princeton Environmental Institute and first author of the paper.

According to a report in San Diego Union Tribune by Deborah Sullivan Brennan, "Somerville, a distinguished professor emeritus and research professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, will speak at U.C. San Diego Thursday about the prospects for turning the tide on the worst impacts of global warming."

“I think the Paris talks accomplished more than all the previous talks put together,” he said. “They produced an action plan, in which governments committed to what they would do to reduce carbon dioxide and other heat trapping gases into the atmosphere. It provides a means of tracking that, and for governments to revisit it every few years. I think it’s very hopeful, and I’m guardedly optimistic.”