The
Government believes that climate change is one of the
gravest threats we face, and that urgent action at home
and abroad is required. We need to use a wide range of
levers to cut carbon emissions, decarbonise the economy
and support the creation of new green jobs and
technologies. We will implement a full programme of
measures to fulfil our joint ambitions for a low carbon
and eco-friendly economy.
The full text see here:
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First
Comment: Paul Thomas Wright says:
24
May 2010 at 11:26 am (not reproduced)
Comment-10053: Arnd
Bernaerts says:
10
June 2010 at 5:47 pm as it follows:
Kindly ensure
that your programme is working with clear, and
meaningful terminology. The terms: climate, climate
change, and climate system, as used by science nowadays
do not belong to this category. Science defines climate
as average weather, but does not define weather in the
first place. The UN Framework Convention on Climate
Change, defines neither climate nor weather but
stipulates by a useless tautology: “Climate Change
means the change of climate which is… “, and that
“Climate System” means the totality of the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere and
geosphere and their interactions. Any explanation of the
system of nature or the weather would go the same
way.
Although CLIMATE is a layman’s term and does not mean anything more
than average or statistical weather, IPCC and other,
want to make one believe that there are important
differences by very questionable considerations. In a FAQ
1.2 (WG1-2007, p. 96: ‘What is the Relationship
between Climate Change and Weather?’ IPCC says:
____“A common confusion between weather and climate
arises when scientists are asked how they can predict
climate 50 years from now when they cannot predict the
weather a few weeks from now.”
Although the FAQ
1.2 starts with the sentence that
___”Climate is generally defined as average weather,
and as such, climate change and weather are intertwined”,
they offer as distinction:
____“As an analogy, while it is impossible to predict
the age at which any particular man will die, we can say
with high confidence that the average age of death for
men in industrialized countries is about 75. “
In contrast to
the life expectation of
human beings, the life-span of “climate” is,
according IPCC, WMO, and others:
___”…… the statistical description in terms of the
mean and variability of relevant quantities over a
period of time ranging from months to thousands or
millions of years”, which render the analogy as little
enlightening, as climate can not die. More reading about
the unscientific term “climate” at: http://www.whatisclimate.com/
The
Glossary of the American Meteorological Society shows
what goes wrong when claiming that weather and climate
are different issues, when saying about “weather”:
·
The
“present weather” table consists of 100 possible
conditions,
·
with
10 possibilities for “past weather”, while
·
popularly, weather is
thought of in terms of temperature, humidity,
precipitation, cloudiness, visibility, and wind.
In
the understanding of IPCC and other scientific
organisations it seems possible to assume that weather
is not necessarily weather, but which can be
distinguished between big, or small weather, on reduced
to one, 3, 10, or 80 weather items, which one may call
CLIMATE just as it pleases. “Climate” has become a
prominent issue and the scientific terminology used in
this respect should be clear, useful, and meet academic
standards. The current terminology does not meet minimum
scientific standards.
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