INSIGHT

Im watching Insight on SBS  - very interesting discussion on climate change and whether or not it is real/exists.

The transcript on the Insight websight is very good reading (especially if you were like me and couldn't keep up with everything that was said during the debate).

The late Stephen Schneider was the Professor of Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies at Stanford University. An internationally recognised leader in research on climate change, he served as a consultant on the issue to every U.S. President from Nixon to Obama.

Professor David Karoly

Professor David Karoly is an Australian Research Council Fellow at the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Melbourne. He is an internationally recognised expert on climate change and climate variability.

 Here are some comments left by members of the public on the website:

nico

from canberra act

2010-09-13 09:32:06

Stephen Schneider deserves a (posthumous) medal for his patience, dealing with this catalogue of familiar denialist talking points. The interesting sub-text was and is the ideological alignment of those who deny human influence on climate. Scientists tend not to show their political views. Conversely, those who hold strong ideological views tend to ignore the evidence of science if it is inconvenient.

Ori

from Melbourne

2010-09-10 14:44:24

Sceptics

The technology is out there for the Modern human to stop using fossil fuels....But as always the big guns who make the billions of dollars don't care..There are scientist over the last 100 years who had other ideas eg nicolas telsa. The carbon cycle is a natural cycle on earth but we are speeding a natural cycle by the burning of fossil fuels....plain simple LOGIC!!! Also the next frontier of science is quantum physics...Where there are answers to substanable energy sources.  ***************************************************************************** Weekly Water Use.... Insert from diary