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Peter Gleick: The real climate hoax

Posted by: Maven on December 22, 2009 at 8:32 am

gleickFrom Peter Gleick at the City Brights blog:

“In all of the recent news about climate change, leaked emails, complex negotiations, and watered-down agreements in Copenhagen, one fact has’t received enough attention. The climate “hoax” is real. The only problem is that the real hoax is the effort by climate change deniers who argue that the climate isn’t changing, or that it isn’t because of human actions. It is, and it is. The science is unambiguous. The climate is changing, rapidly, and it is doing so because of our emissions of greenhouse gases.

I know many people have said this. I’ve been saying it for twenty-five years in my research and writings. But if the phrase “climate hoax” is going to enter the public vernacular, it should do so in the right way. So from now on, I intend to use it to refer to the efforts of climate change deniers to misinform the public and our policy makers. Some, like Senator James Inhofe (of Oklahoma), love the phrase “climate hoax.” Fine, but since he is a major elected official perpetrating this hoax (actually, I think he is probably both a hoax-er and a hoax-ee), let the words represent his own actions.

He and the other deniers are foisting a hoax on the American people by misusing and abusing science and by misrepresenting facts for narrow ideological purposes. … “


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December 22, 2009 · Filed Under Climate change & water supply

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2 Responses to “Peter Gleick: The real climate hoax”

  1. WaterSource/WaterBank on December 22nd, 2009 10:21 am

    Gleick states,

    ” 20%. This is the expected decrease in recharge of the vitally important Ogallala Aquifer under the Great Plains of the United States if temperatures increase by 2.5 degrees C.”

    Hydrologists have always claimed that The Ogallala is a non-rechargeable aquifer, so Gleick is promoting a hoax !

    Is Gleick’s Pacific Institute (PI) a hoax ? The PI has long promoted restoration of the CO River Delta but when offered a free confidential disclosure of a million acre feet a year Source for such purposes, it refuses to formulate a way to investigate/verify.

    WaterSourceWaterBank waterrdw@yahoo.com Retired Water Rights Analyst

  2. Peter Gleick on December 23rd, 2009 8:51 pm

    Indeed, I see no reason to spend time and resources to verify this person’s claims of a magical new million acre-feet of water for the Colorado River.
    If such water actually exists, this “retired water rights analyst” should tell the Dept. of Interior, Bureau of Reclamation (which allocates and manages Colorado River water). Unless, of course, this person simply wants to make money on this water, in which case, the Pacific Institute is still not interested — as a non-profit research organization. This isn’t what we do…

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