For many years now, human-caused climate change has been viewed as a large and urgent problem, says Bob Carter, a geologist at James Cook University. In truth, however, the biggest part of the problem is neither environmental nor scientific, but a self-created political fiasco.
According to Carter:
Climate changes naturally occur all the time, partly in predictable cycles and partly in unpredictable shorter rhythms and rapid episodic shifts, some of the causes of which remain unknown, says Carter. We are fortunate that our modern societies have developed during the last 10,000 years of benignly warm, interglacial climate. The reality of the climate record is that a sudden natural cooling is far more to be feared, and will do infinitely more social and economic damage, than the late 20th century phase of gentle warming.
Source: Bob Carter, There Is a Problem With Global Warming…It Stopped in 1998, Opinion Telegraph, April 9, 2006.
For more on Global Warming: http://eteam.ncpa.org/issues/?c=science
FMF Policy Bulletin/ 02 May 2006
