from The Guardian -
How old masters are helping study of global warming
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Not quite the usual article about the conservation of heritage - but an equally, if not more, important aspect of conservation, with implications reaching outwards on a global scale.
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  1. How could one link the recycling of waste paper to the icebergs in the Arctics? Did global warming cause the tsunami and Hurricane Katrina back then? There isn't one perfect answer to all these and that is the complexity of the global warming! Given all these tentative conclusions from scientific data, policy makers choose to judge these as uncertainties and an excuse to wand off immediate preventive actions or to demand more studies.

    But then, tilt our heads a little: scientific data accumulated over the past has enough to delude certain patterns in warming of sea temperature, higher frequency and intensity of hurricanes and many other signs of the yet-to-come disasters. Scientists cant say when tomorrow never comes but warn us - if we still like to wait, then we will also see plenty more of the worst. How about a few more cyclones wrecking around some of the top 10 liveable cities?

    So i put this quote(published from an article in National Geographic May 2006, "when science and politics clash") from Kerry Emanuel, a MIT climatologist into the limelight again: "At what point in the evolution of uncertainty does one choose to act?" I reckon now.

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