8th November 2006, 04:18 PM
I like Sir Sterns use of the delimiting clause in the report âA warming of 5°C on a global scale would be far outside the experience of human civilisation and comparable to the difference between temperatures during the last ice age and today.â (I am not sure what we were up to in that period) And its juxtaposition with a later statement âthe last interglacial period, around 125,000 years ago when Greenland temperatures reached around 4 - 5°C above the present, melting of ice in the Arctic contributed several metres to sea level rise.â (does floating ice raise the water level when it melts?)
Sir Stern only seems to have atmospheric carbon dioxide data going back to 1850. He seems to have got a lot of mileage out of it.
Sir Stern only seems to have atmospheric carbon dioxide data going back to 1850. He seems to have got a lot of mileage out of it.