We are at emergency levels, page-248

“This may seem like a huge alarmist con but seas were that high in the past when the temperatures were around the same as today. Scientists have suggestedt here is a catch up period when ice melts and eventually the appropriate sea level change occurs.”

Yeah, a great many smart-sounding people continuously “suggest” all kinds of things; some are real and some are false.

You’ll appreciate, I trust, that a great many people (the overwhelming majority, I’m sure) require more than mere hypothetical suggestions about things for them to take those things seriously. Especially when those suggestions are about such somewhat unorthodox arguments as “catch-up periods” of ice melting in delayed reaction after increases in temperatures.

I have to say, “catch-up” melting of ice In delayed response to rising global temperatures does not pass the smell test with any conviction, if at all.


“Your startling statistics should have world leaders agitating for action as your statistics suggest –we seem unable to slow down our emissions indicating we are heading for a greater than 1m rise in sea levels..”

For starters, they aren’t my startling statistics; I am merely citing research conducted by an independent agency.

But I do agree with you that we don’t seem able to slow down our emissions (although the extent to which that will lead to meaningful rises in sea levels is a somewhat indeterminate prediction, in my observation.)

But I’m not opposing your right to believe continued rising emissions will lead to meaningful rises in sea levels.

To that end, permit me to ask you this: the agitation on the part of world leaders that you envisage; what kinds of actions might arise from such agitation that will reverse the sorts of major structural emissions trends that I pointed out in my previous post?

In other words, what can be done to stop emissions from developing countries rising unabated as the populations of those countries continue to rise and their economies industrialise and modernise, with the attendant rise in per capita emissions and hence, the exponential rise in total emissions?

What, specifically, is your proposed solution?