2009年12月3日 星期四

Top climate scientist hopes Copenhagen fails (transcript from ABC, Australia on 04/12/2009)

'The scientist who convinced the world that global warming was a looming danger says the planet will be better off if next week's Copenhagen climate change summit ends in collapse.'
I was shocked to read this article in the first instance, but after reading the full content, it's really true on what Mr. James Hansen said; prior interviewing by the Guardian newspaper, he piekced up the point that any agreement to emerge from the meeting will be so flawed that it would be better to start again from scratch.
Just imagine if we rely on caps and ETS (proposed by Australian Government), it doesn't help to reduce our CO2 emission, but only allowing polluters to buy the right continue to pollute our environment. A lot of climate change skeptics argued that CO2 emission and greenhouse gases were not caused by human activities, they totally denied all datas and proofs given by scientists!
Well, let's not dig our head into the sand and face reality, we are confronting a lot of natural disaster which never happened before; such as tsunami, extreme draught, extreme rainstorm which caused flooding, rising of sea level, rising of global temperature, dramatic speed of Glaciers melting at the Arctic, once we put up altogether, we could realized that climate change is really taking place and cuased by human actitivties.
If we want to reduce CO2 emission, we must start from ourselves, such as using less air conditioners and refrigerator, avoid using chemicals (CFC) stuff, such as hair spray etc., at the same token, we have to put up a tax on carbon emission on those big polluters, refrain from deforestation (or even stop completely), educate people about devastation of climate change bring to our next generations.
By all means, we could be living in a better and cleaner environment when everyone is playing his/her role as stated above. I am really hopeful that some conclusion could be drawn after the Copenhagen climate change summit next week, we will wait and see!

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