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Climate change: uncertainty is inevitable but risk is certain : Comments

By Barrie Pittock, published 28/11/2013

Governments have to work out how best to adapt existing settlements and infrastructure from increasing risks and investors to properly anticipate risks.

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Well done Barrie! You have put every scenario known to man and it's all due to "Climate Change? Whatever happened to "Global Warming"?
You are following Prof Flannery, whatever happens sigh, roll your eyes and parrot "Climate Change". The "you are all going to die is a given".
The Y2K bug was a lovely little earner. The ozone hole stopped all but India and Russia producing fluoro carbons (They produce more than ever now)and we are supposed to forget both of these and be frightened by you?
Barrie mate, grow roses, go for long walks on the beach but for goodness sake give it a rest!
Posted by JBowyer, Thursday, 28 November 2013 8:17:18 AM
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And Barrie, as you walk along the beach keep your eyes open for people who have their heads in the sand. They are denialists who are waiting to have their backsides kicked by the effects of climate change/global warming.
They are in for a big shock one day.
Posted by Robert LePage, Thursday, 28 November 2013 8:30:48 AM
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Oh god, another Global Warming 101, by one who has profited well from the scam. I wonder if the book sales have slowed down, or have your old research mates asked for a bit of help keeping the scam going.

Well put JBowyer, the ozone hole story should always be used when some "scientists" starts or pushes any scare/scam campaign. I have always found it telling, that the danger to the human race of the the ozone hole, attributed to fluoro carbons only became the in "science" just when DuPont's patent for fluoro carbon refrigerants expired.

I wonder how much DuPont paid for those "scientists"?

Weren't we so lucky that DuPont just happened to have a new patent for a new refrigerant gas all ready to save us.

Sorry Barrie, the patent on naivety ran out some years back. You'll have to do much better than this little lot. Hell, even first year Environmental Science students would find this a bit light weight
Posted by Hasbeen, Thursday, 28 November 2013 9:43:30 AM
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Good article. It should be noted, by denialists and warmists alike, that all these hazards identified already exist and need to be addressed. Unsubsidised insurance is a good example.
I find it incomprehensible that, in this century with so much experience behind us, people are still losing homes to floods and fires. These are easily foreseeable and preventable. In many cases it may be individuals who are responsible, in others local councils and governments must share some blame.
When government bodies are not part of the solution, they are most definitely part of the problem.
Posted by Grim, Thursday, 28 November 2013 9:46:22 AM
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I was very happy to post this article on the assumption that one thing that both catastrophists and skeptics could agree on was that there are such things as sensible precautions, and we should take them.

Extreme weather events are as old as Noah (joke Runner) and whether they are becoming more or less frequent, they occur. Indeed, hurricanes, cyclones and typhoons appear to be more frequent when climate is colder, so if you are a believer in the sunspot hypothesis of Svensmark et al then the need to allow for storm frequency is greater, not less.
Posted by GrahamY, Thursday, 28 November 2013 10:08:56 AM
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Very well Barrie - I have a question. A glace at the satellite readings of sea level heights kept by the University of Colorado
http://sealevel.colorado.edu

shows that sea level increases have been a steady 3.2 mm a year for 20 years now.. to get to even the lower level of scenario you set out - 60 cms by 2100 that rate of increase will have to at least double for the whole of the remaining part of the century.. but there's been no increase at all for the observed period.. when might we expect some change to occur? Why hasn't it already happened?
Posted by Curmudgeon, Thursday, 28 November 2013 10:08:56 AM
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