The Met Office plans to re-examine 160 years of temperature data after admitting that public confidence in the science on man-made global warming has been shattered by leaked e-mails.
The new analysis of the data will take three years, meaning that the Met Office will not be able to state with absolute confidence the extent of the warming trend until the end of 2012.
The Met Office database is one of three main sources of temperature data analysis on which the UN’s main climate change science body relies for its assessment that global warming is a serious danger to the world. This assessment is the basis for next week’s climate change talks in Copenhagen aimed at cutting CO2 emissions.
The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change admitted yesterday that it needed to consider the full implications of the e-mails and whether they cast doubt on any of the evidence for man-made global warming.
Evidemment qu'à la vue de ceci, le sommet de Copenhague ne peut qu'être reporté à 2012.
Celui-ci est trop important, a trop d'impact sur la vie des gens pour qu'un tel doute soit acceptable.
Mais évidemment que ce n'est pas ce qui va arriver car la réalité ne compte pas ici. Nous sommes en politique !
François.
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