Posted on 07/30/2007 3:52:01 PM PDT by DancesWithCats
Charles Clover meets the new head of the Science Museum and hears his controversial views on tackling global warming
Beware of increased noise next time you visit the Science Museum, temple to scientific reason since the Great Exhibition of 1851. Its new director is a confidant of Al Gore's, with a lifetime belief that if you have a big story to tell you should "tell it with a megaphone."
Chris Rapley, 60, comes to the museum from the British Antarctic Survey. In his 10 years as director, the institution that discovered the hole in the ozone layer in the 1980s, has taken its place in the front line of climate science.
There he used his favourite instrument to tell the world that the West Antarctic ice sheet, previously described as "a slumbering giant" and thought to be stable for 1,000 years, was beginning to drip into the sea.
It was two years ago, at the Government's conference on climate change in Exeter, that Rapley declared that Antarctica was now "a giant awakened" - in other words, the melting of suspended ice that could eventually raise global sea levels by five metres had, in a small way, begun.
Prof Rapley believes that there is an "unequivocal" link between mankind's fossil fuel emissions and the global temperature rise seen over the past few decades. However, it's not only this conviction that could strike fear into the hearts of the climate change sceptics.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Looks like kavorkian was doing us all a favor ...
"We need a Kyoto-plus to get everybody to step up to the bar," says Rapley. Sounds to me like this feller has stepped up to the bar one time too many ... why don't they sell this philosophy in Africa or India instead of sending billions of our dollars over there to keep 'em alive?
140,000 years ago it was a tropical swamp - this guy is a moron.
OK, all Muslims, all illegals, big fat Teddy the swimmer, The Big Bore, Chuckie Schumer, Pretty Boy Edwards, Jon Francois Carry, Both Clintoons, Pelosi, Senorita El Stupido Boxer, Castro, Chavez, Mugabe, Reid, Murtha, Leahy, Bernie Sanders, M. Waters, Cynthia McKinney, Michael Moore, Sean Penn, Babs, Rosie, Sarandon, Paris Hilton, to name just a few for starters.
OK with me, all of em gone tomorrow. Adios amigos e amigas.
ML/NJ
You first, Chuck.
Suddenly I support solving the global warming problem.
Nuke Mecca and level the middle east to save the planet from Global Warming.
Support Gaia. Sing Kumbya and that sort of thing.
“We need fewer people to halt global warming”
I can think of a few places to start on that project...
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