{"id":1411,"date":"2014-11-07T16:13:32","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T15:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mr-int.ch\/?p=1411"},"modified":"2015-05-17T13:00:12","modified_gmt":"2015-05-17T12:00:12","slug":"my-position-on-the-climate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mr-int.ch\/?p=1411&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"My position on the climate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"gt-res-content\" class=\"almost_half_cell\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><span class=\"\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"hps\">It is true that,\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"hps\">to<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">understand something about<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">this controversy, one\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"hps\">must<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">devote time<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">and attention<\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"hps\">For those<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">who trust me in<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">my ramblings<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">I summarize here<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">my<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">position<\/span>, it is quite <span class=\"hps\">clear:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li dir=\"ltr\"><span id=\"result_box\" class=\"\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"hps\">Yes, warming is going on, by<\/span><span class=\"hps\"> 1<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">\u00b0 C<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">since the beginning of<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">the industrial era,<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\"><span id=\"result_box\" class=\"\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"hps\">G<\/span><\/span><span id=\"result_box\" class=\"\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"hps\">reenhouse gas<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">emissions<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">explain<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">it<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">to approx.<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">40%,<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">with<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">30% <\/span><span class=\"hps\">for CO<sub>2<\/sub> alone,<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">The remaining 60% have nothing to do with greenhouse gases, they have natural or human causes.<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\"><span id=\"result_box\" class=\"\" lang=\"en\">W<span class=\"hps\">arming<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">is therefore<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">barely controllable by<\/span><span class=\"hps\"> a reduction<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">of CO<sub>2<\/sub> emissions<\/span>,<\/span><\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\"><span id=\"result_box\" class=\"\" lang=\"en\">G<span class=\"hps\">eneral <span class=\"hps atn\">anti-<\/span><span class=\"\">carbon<\/span> mobilization<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"hps\">is more <\/span><span class=\"hps\">a collectivist<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">ideology<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">than<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">an ecological<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">warning<\/span>.<\/span><\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\"><span id=\"result_box\" class=\"\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"hps\">The IPCC<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">plays<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">an ambiguous<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">role<\/span>.<\/span><\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\"><span id=\"result_box\" class=\"\" lang=\"en\">T<span class=\"hps\">he real<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">development priorities<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">suffer from this<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">monomaniac<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">activism.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\"><span id=\"result_box\" class=\"\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"hps\">There is<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">no planet<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">to save.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span id=\"result_box\" class=\"\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"hps\">This<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">position<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">is neither <\/span><span class=\"hps\">warmist, nor denialist, nor <\/span><span class=\"hps\">sceptical;\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"hps\">in the<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">politics of our <\/span><span class=\"hps atn\">post-<\/span>modern <span class=\"hps\">times,<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">it is simply<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">heretic.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"hps\">For<\/span> those who don&rsquo;t wish to believe me blindly,<span class=\"\"> it is<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">imperative that they study and understand the subject, which will require some effort.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"result_box\" class=\"\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"hps\">For this, I<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">set-up my site\u00a0<\/span><a title=\"MR-climate\" href=\"http:\/\/climate.mr-int.ch\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"hps\">climate.mr-int.ch<\/span><\/a> <span class=\"hps\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is true that, to understand something about the climate controversy, one must devote time and attention.<br \/>\nFor those who trust me in my ramblings I summarize here my position, it is quite 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