UPDATE: Gwynne Dyer talks Climate Change at WDSS
Gwynne Dyer was welcomed by a gymnasium full of students from Wallaceburg and Lambton-Kent Wednesday morning.
Dyer was speaking about the political and military aspects of climate change.
According to Dyer, one of the problems we are currently experiencing in the world is that more carbon dioxide is going into the air right now because of fossil fuels.
“Once you put it (carbon dioxide) in the atmosphere, it stays there for 200 years,” said Dyer.
And this change could have all kinds of political implications.
Dyer told students that the current path we are on, with regard to CO2 emissions, will cause the world’s average temperature to rise even more than it already has, and if it rises above 2 degrees there could be serious implications on the food supply.
He says if the average temperature rises too high, the food supplies of the countries near the equator will be in jeopardy and this will set off a political and possibly even a military chain reaction.
But his message was not all doom and gloom.
Dyer also told students that there are some solutions that are possible for the future, including releasing sulphur dioxide into the stratosphere in order to block out some of the sun’s rays, which would slow down the temperature change enough for us to find a solution before it is too late.
Gwynne Dyer will be receiving the Order of Canada on Friday and an honorary doctorate from Trent University a week later.
For more information on Gwynne Dyer’s thoughts and writings you can go to http://gwynnedyer.com/.
Jim in Wallaceburg
May 23, 2012 at 4:28 pm
What a coup to get accomplished journalist and lecturer Gwynne Dyer to speak with local students. Fact based shock and awe with a sprinkling of informed opinion.
Philip Shaw
May 23, 2012 at 9:21 pm
Kudos to WDSS Principal Rob Lee for getting world famous journalist Gwynne Dyer to speak in Wallaceburg this morning at WDSS. I was able to attend the event, on the invitation from Mr Smith, from LKCS. Dyer is a world class star in his genre. He gave a great talk and many students got to meet him afterwards. It was a wonderful event, and I’m sure the students were inspired.
Ex-liberal
May 24, 2012 at 3:43 pm
I agree, clean air and water is something we should all be concerned about, and as a matter of fact, the quality of our air and water is considerably better these days than it was 30 years ago.
But with all due respect to Mr Dyer, I do not agree, that ‘man made global warming’ is any concern whatsoever. According to NASA the temperature of the earth has steadily decreased in the last decade or so. Anyone can substantiate this info with a simple search on the internet. Temperature fluctuation is normal… the temperature of the earth goes up and then it goes down – it goes up and then down… and so on and so on…
There are more and more respected and accredited scientists/climatoligists/meteorologists who disagree with the ‘global warming doomsdayers’… I believe the majority of them actually… however, quite simply, the main stream media does not give the same attention to these as they do to the doomsdayers… But that’s no suprise, afterall ‘sensationalism sells’.
Michael Cowtan
May 25, 2012 at 2:21 pm
What a load of BS. Lets see these respected studies of which you speak…..other than the ones from the Heartland Institute.
Ex-liberal
May 25, 2012 at 4:10 pm
Well, for starters, you can check out these links available from the US Senate’s web site…
http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=A17DEFA8-802A-23AD-4912-8AB7138A7C3F
http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=5CEAEDB7-802A-23AD-4BFE-9E32747616F9
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2008/06/army-vs-global/
http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=2674e64f-802a-23ad-490b-bd9faf4dcdb7
If it’s “BS” you’re looking for… check out Al Gores ‘An Inconvenient Truth’. There’s an enough ‘BS’ in there to last you a lifetime.
Michael Cowtan
May 25, 2012 at 4:50 pm
I took a look at the first one, and didn’t bother with the rest. The reason. The report is dated four years ago, since when we have had the 2nd, the 6th, the 11th and the 12th hottest years ever recorded, and we are on path to blow all those out of the water this year.
All the above from the NCDC
Then I look at the rest briefly, to see that they are all out of date.
Ex-liberal
May 25, 2012 at 5:42 pm
Suit yourself Michael.
I must agree that there certainly is an interesting trend on this topic. In the link I provided showing a US Senate Report… in 2007 this report listed ‘More than 400 International Scientists Dissent to Man Made Global Warming’… in 2009 the list was updated… the list grew to more than 700, in 2010 the list was again updated… more than 1000 scientists agree that climate change is NOT man made…. http://hw.libsyn.com/p/b/f/6/bf663fd2376ffeca/2010_Senate_Minority_Report.pdf?sid=5c78b0e331cf1b13a8286be24b61c799&l_sid=27695&l_eid=&l_mid=2336201&expiration=1337968344&hwt=7c21215a289c800a976b5b4f5cc28ddd
…I could be way off base here, but I think it’s a safe bet to assume that this list has grown to a higher number today than it was in 2010.
Remember the 70′s?? The hoopla then was the coming ice age. lol These same people are now on the global warming band wagon. I suspect these people will always go where the funding is.
jp
May 25, 2012 at 8:16 pm
can i ask a honest question? ok so climate change isn’t man made. but does that make it ok to pollute the air we breathe and the water we drink and the earth we grow our food in?
jp
May 25, 2012 at 8:05 pm
Why is it that when we called it air pollution, and acid Rain, and smog, people used to give a damn. now that we keep using the global warming buzz word you get every conservative out there screaming that there is no such thing. maybe we should stop calling it climate change and go back to calling it something tangible that people can see when they look out the window. Then maybe just maybe we could get everyone on board. Stop this political bull, and do something to better the world we live in.
Ex-liberal
May 25, 2012 at 8:45 pm
The claim from the ‘doomsdayers’ is that man is causing the earth to warm and there will be catastrophies because of it… “We’re all gonna die because of the threat of global warming and its all because of man!”.
But the reality is… the earth warms up, the earth cools down, the earth warms up, the earth cools down… NATURALLY… not as a result of burning fossil fuels or whatever man does or has done.
Realists point this out and you get a bunch of lefties pouting and kicking stones because… well, that’s what lefties do.
If you want to talk about pollution control, fine… let’s talk about it. But don’t cry foul when you put forth nonsense and get called out for doing such. FWIW… our air and water supplies are much better today than they were 30, 40 years ago… because we took steps to guard against it…. and we should continue to do so… but that still has nothing to do with ‘climate change’ or ‘global warming/cooling’. ‘Climate change’ happens naturally. Always has, always will.
Michael Cowtan
May 26, 2012 at 11:37 am
“That humans are causing global warming is the position of the Academies of Science from 19 countries plus many scientific organizations that study climate science. More specifically, around 95% of active climate researchers actively publishing climate papers endorse the consensus position.”
http://www.skepticalscience.com/global-warming-scientific-consensus-intermediate.htm