contradictory statements on climate change from Britain

[1]Global warming stopped 16 years ago, reveals Met Office ...

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Oct 13, 2012 - This means that the 'plateau' or 'pause' in global warming has now lasted for ... Surprising: News that the world has got no warmer for the past 16 years .... They trigger a range of policy responses from the Bank of England and the .... The Met office has refuted the claims this article has made and accuses its ...

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UK Foreign Office: Climate change threat must be handled like nuclear proliferation

14 July 2015, source edie newsroom

We have failed to address the system risks of climate change, warns the report

Climate change should be treated with the same gravity as the threat of nuclear war, a major new report from the UK Foreign Office has warned.
The report, Climate change: A risk assessment, warns policy-makers of the catastrophic effects of the worst-case scenarios of climate change, urging them to prepare for the worst.
Writing in the report foreword, the minister of state for the Commonwealth and Foreign Office, Baroness Joyce Anelay, said: “In the past, when assessing the risk of climate change, we have tended to take an approach that is, perhaps, too narrow - or incomplete.
“In public debate, we have sometimes treated it as an issue of prediction, as if it were a long-term weather forecast. Or as purely a question of economics - as if the whole of the threat could be accurately quantified by putting numbers into a calculator. Often, too, we have not fully assessed the indirect or systemic risks, such as those affecting international security.”
Baroness Anelay added that a holistic approach was needed, adding: “It is an approach that applies as much to climate change as to, for example, preventing the spread of nuclear weapons.”
The risks
The report authors, led by UK climate envoy Sir David King, said the systemic risks of climate change included spiralling crop failures leading to a tripling of food prices and widespread shortages.
Extreme water stress and competition for productive land could also become a source of conflict, warned the report, while migration could start to take place on a “historically unprecedented scale”.
The report continues: “It seems likely that the capacity of the international community for humanitarian assistance would be overwhelmed. The risks of state failure could rise significantly, affecting many countries simultaneously, and even threatening those that are currently considered developed and stable.
“The expansion of ungoverned territories would in turn increase the risks of terrorism. The temptation for states or other actors to take unilateral steps toward climate geoengineering would be significant, and could become a further source of conflict.”
Solution
However the report also points out ways to avoid this apocalyptic scenario. It says political leadership can “significantly change the trajectory of any country’s emissions in the short term”, while accelerating the rate of technological innovation should be a priority.
Finally the report calls for small changes in the finance system that can produce large results, such as carbon pricing, or mechanisms that encourage investment in technologies with long-term benefits.
“The risks of climate change may be greater than is commonly realized, but so is our capacity to confront them,” concludes the report.
“An honest assessment of risk is no reason for fatalism. If we counter inertia with ingenuity, match feedback with feedback, and find and cross the thresholds of non-linear change, then the goal of preserving a safe climate for the future need not be beyond our reach”.
Brad Allen
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The Scandal Of Fiddled Global Warming Data June 25 2014 | From: TheTelegraph The US has actually been cooling since the Thirties, the hottest decade on record. Comment: But the cooked-up man-made global warming data sure does play into the hands of the cabal. It's just what the Doctor ordered for gaining more power, control and theft of money - forcing the stupid sheeple to pay 'carbon taxes' and such. A scene from 'The Day After Tomorrow': in reality, officially approved scientists fudge the data When future generations try to understand how the world got carried away around the end of the 20th century by the panic over global warming, few things will amaze them more than the part played in stoking up the scare by the fiddling of official temperature data. There was already much evidence of this seven years ago, when I was writing my history of the scare, The Real Global Warming Disaster. But now another damning example has been uncovered by Steven Goddard’s US blog Real Science, showing how shamelessly manipulated has been one of the world’s most influential climate records, the graph of US surface temperature records published by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Goddard shows how, in recent years, NOAA’s US Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) has been “adjusting” its record by replacing real temperatures with data “fabricated” by computer models. The effect of this has been to downgrade earlier temperatures and to exaggerate those from recent decades, to give the impression that the Earth has been warming up much more than is justified by the actual data. In several posts headed “Data tampering at USHCN / GISS”, Goddard compares the currently published temperature graphs with those based only on temperatures measured at the time. These show that the US has actually been cooling since the Thirties, the hottest decade on record; whereas the latest graph, nearly half of it based on “fabricated” data, shows it to have been warming at a rate equivalent to more than 3 degrees centigrade per century. When I first began examining the global-warming scare, I found nothing more puzzling than the way officially approved scientists kept on being shown to have finagled their data, as in that ludicrous “hockey stick” graph, pretending to prove that the world had suddenly become much hotter than at any time in 1,000 years. Any theory needing to rely so consistently on fudging the evidence, I concluded, must be looked on not as science at all, but as simply a rather alarming case study in the aberrations of group psychology.