[Solar-general] Is climate science disinformation a crime against humanity?

Vie Nov 5 20:58:53 CET 2010

.2010/11/5 Martin <plateado.info en gmail.com>:
> El día 5 de noviembre de 2010 12:44, Nicolás Reynolds
> <fauno en kiwwwi.com.ar> escribió:
>> http://ur1.ca/29w93
>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/cif-green/2010/nov/01/climate-science-disinformation-crime
>> Is climate science disinformation a crime against humanity? | Donald Brown |
>> Environment | guardian.co.uk
>>
>> Deeply irresponsible corporate-sponsored programmes of disinformation have
>> potentially harsh effects upon tens of millions of people
>>
>>  * Donald Brown
>>  * [48]guardian.co.uk, Monday 1 November 2010 16.47 GMT
>>
>> [climate change in Bangladesh] Climate change and flooding is already
>> affecting countries such as Bangladesh. Photograph: Hassan Bipul/DFID
>>
>> Although there is an important role for scepticism in science, for almost 30
>> years some corporations have supported a disinformation campaign about
>> [49]climate change science.
>>
>> While it may be reasonable to be somewhat sceptical about climate change
>> models, these untruths are not based upon reasonable scepticism but outright
>> falsification and distortions of climate change science.
>>
>> These claims have included assertions that the science of climate change has
>> been completely "debunked" and that there is no evidence of human causation
>> of recent observed warming. There are numerous lines of evidence that point
>> to human causation even if it is not a completely settled matter. Reasonable
>> scepticism cannot claim that there is no evidence of causation and some
>> other claims frequently being made by the well-financed climate change
>> disinformation campaign, and they amount to an utter distortion of a body of
>> evidence that the world needs to understand to protect itself from huge
>> potential harms.
>>
>> On 21 October, 2010, [50]John Broder of the New York Times, reported that
>> "the fossil fuel industries have for decades waged a concerted campaign to
>> raise doubts about the science of global warming and to undermine policies
>> devised to address it".
>>
>> According the New York Times article, the fossil fuel industry has "created
>> and lavishly financed institutes to produce anti-global warming studies,
>> paid for rallies and websites to question the science, and generated scores
>> of economic analyses that purport to show that policies to reduce emissions
>> of climate-altering gases will have a devastating effect on jobs and the
>> overall economy."
>>
>> Disinformation about the state of climate change science is extraordinarily
>> – if not criminally – irresponsible, because the consensus scientific view
>> is based upon strong evidence that climate change:
>>
>> • Is already being experienced by tens of thousands in the world;
>>
>> • Will be experienced in the future by millions of people from greenhouse
>> gas emissions that have already been emitted but not yet felt due to lags in
>> the climate system; and,
>>
>> • Will increase dramatically in the future unless greenhouse gas emissions
>> are dramatically reduced from existing global emissions levels.
>>
>> Threats from climate change include deaths and danger from droughts, floods,
>> heat, storm-related damages, rising oceans, heat impacts on agriculture,
>> loss of animals that are dependent upon for substance purposes, social
>> disputes caused by diminishing resources, sickness from a variety of
>> diseases, the inability to rely upon traditional sources of food, the
>> inability to use property that people depend upon to conduct their life
>> including houses or sleds in cold places, the destruction of water supplies,
>> and the inability to live where has lived to sustain life. The very
>> existence of some small island nations is threatened by climate change.
>>
>> As long as there is any chance that climate change could create this type of
>> destruction, even assuming, for the sake of argument, that these dangers are
>> not yet fully proven, disinformation about the state of climate change
>> science is extraordinarily morally reprehensible if it leads to non-action
>> in reducing climate change's threat. In fact, how to deal with uncertainty
>> in climate change science is an ethical issue, not only a scientific matter,
>> because the consequences of delay could be so severe and the poorest people
>> in the world as some of the most vulnerable.
>>
>> The corporations that have funded the sowing of doubt on this issue are
>> clearly doing this because they see greenhouse gas emissions reduction
>> strategies as adversely affecting their financial interests.
>>
>> This might be understood as a new type of crime against humanity. Scepticism
>> in science is not bad, but sceptics must play by the rules of science
>> including publishing their conclusions in peer-reviewed scientific journals
>> and not make claims that are not substantiated by the peer-reviewed
>> literature. The need for responsible scepticism is particularly urgent if
>> misinformation from sceptics could lead to great harm.
>>
>> We may not have a word for this type of crime yet, but the international
>> community should find a way of classifying extraordinarily irresponsible
>> scientific claims that could lead to mass suffering as some type of crime
>> against humanity.
>>
>> • [51]Donald Brown is associate professor in environmental ethics, science
>> and law at Penn State University. The full version of this article was first
>> [52]published on the Penn State website.
>>
>>
>>  References:
>>  48. http://www.guardian.co.uk/
>>  49. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/climate-change
>>  50. http://community.nytimes.com/comments/www.nytimes.com/2010/10/21/us/politics/21climate.html?sort=newest&amp;offset=2
>>  51. http://www.psiee.psu.edu/psiee_people/faculty_results_detail.asp?faculty_id=461
>>  52. http://rockblogs.psu.edu/climate/2010/10/a-new-kind-of-vicious-crime-against-humanity-the-fossil-fuel-industrys-disinformation-campaign-on-cl.html
>>
>> --
>> Salud!
>> Nicolás Reynolds,
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>
> The “Royal Society” cuestiona la tesis del calentamiento global por CO2
>
>
> 3  de Octubre de 2010 – La Real Sociedad de la Ciencia , el principal
> organismo científico en el Reino Unido, se ha visto obligado a
> reescribir el manual sobre el clima.
>
> La nueva guía publicada el 30 de Septiembre de 2010 que pueden
> descargar aquí, admite ahora que hay algunas “dudas” sobre la ciencia
> detrás del cambio climático, y evita hacer cualquier predicción sobre
> los posibles impactos del cambio climático.
>
> La Academia Científica  reconoce que  ”No es posible determinar
> exactamente la cantidad de la Tierra se calentará o exactamente cómo
> el clima va a cambiar en el futuro”.
>
> La reescritura se produjo después de 43 miembros se rebelaron,
> quejándose de que la versión anterior no tuvo en cuenta la opinión de
> los científicos disidentes del cambio climático.
>
> Incluso se aconseja precaución en la elaboración de proyecciones
> acerca de los niveles del mar. ”Del mismo modo, la posibilidad de
> grandes cambios en la circulación del Océano Atlántico Norte no se
> puede evaluar con confianza.”
>
> Aún más revelador, la Real Sociedad también está de acuerdo que la
> tendencia al calentamiento de la década de 1980 y 90 ha cesado en los
> diez últimos años.
>
> Incluso abre oficialmente  por fin la posibilidad de una teoría de
> cambio climático de origen cósmico.
>
> fuente:
> http://starviewer.wordpress.com/2010/10/04/the-royal-society-cuestiona-la-tesis-del-calentamiento-global-por-co2/
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Concluding remarks
57	There
is strong evidence that changes in greenhouse gas concentrations due to human
activity are the dominant cause of the global warming that has taken
place over the last
half century. This warming trend is expected to continue as are
changes in precipitation
over the long term in many regions. Further and more rapid increases
in sea level are
likely which will have profound implications for coastal communities
and ecosystems.
58	It
is not possible to determine exactly how much the Earth will warm or
exactly how the
climate will change in the future, but careful estimates of potential
changes and
associated uncertainties have been made. Scientists continue to work
to narrow these
areas of uncertainty. Uncertainty can work both ways, since the
changes and their
impacts may be either smaller or larger than those projected.

Podemos leer el Sumario (que no guia, ni manual SUMARIO) antes de
sacar conclusiones? Al menos el final, donde cuentan todo rapido sin
necesidad de pensar mucho.