30,000 research papers show global warming is real: happy now?

You should be. The UN having announced that a meta-analysis of no less than 30,000 research papers confirms that global warming is real and that human activity is contributing to it should be proof enough for anyone with half a brain. Unless of course that brain is under the influence of the vested interests of the fossil fuel business.
The rest of us, hopefully, now see what an enormous problem the Erath is dealing with. Unless CO2 emissions are virtually eliminated by 2100 it seems we will be more or less fucked.


I hear you muttering, if Britain gets a bit warmer that ain't such a bad thing, right? I mean, we could have vineyards like France has now- that's a good thing surely. I wouldn't be too sure. Yes, Britain might get warmer, but it will also get wetter and windier (last winter should serve as an example of how that will work). Far worse is the strong possibility that it could actually get a lot colder in north-western Europe. At the moment we enjoy a far balmier climate than we have any right to considering our high latitude, courtesy of the Gulf Stream, or Atlantic Conveyor as scientists like to call it these days. But as the Greenland icecap melts, which it is already doing at an alarming rate, cool water will flood down from the far north, and this could easily disrupt or even destroy the Gulf Stream. Then we could find ourselves no warmer than say, Newfoundland. FYI, Newfoundland has the same sort of climate as central Norway. So don't start planting those vineyards just yet.


For me, the first thing to do is to completely abandon ALL plans for fracking- not just in the UK but around the world. Instead, let's start looking at sustainable energy sources on the kind of scale which will be needed when oil and gas become anathema. There are plenty out there already, but using some of the massive resources we would have sunk into fracking could bring about revolutionary developments hitherto undreamed of. Necessity is the mother of invention, they say, and boy, do we ever have a necessity right now...