Fortune magazine published an article that was posted to the CNNMoney.com website on May 14, 2009. It is an interview with John Christy, director of the Earth Science Center at the University of Alabama, written by Jon Birger, senior writer at Fortune. Christy is a veteran climatologist who was a lead author on the 2001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report and one of three authors of the American Geophysical Union's landmark 2003 statement on climate change.
This isn’t a story that got a lot of attention from the mainstream media; however, it is worth reading because of the credentials of John Cristy and his research on the issue of global warming.
In the interview, Christy says: “The problem is that the solutions being offered don't provide any detectable relief from this so-called catastrophe (global warming). Congress is now discussing an 80% reduction in U.S. greenhouse emissions by 2050. That's basically the equivalent of building 1,000 new nuclear power plants all operating by 2020. Now I'm all in favor of nuclear energy, but that would affect the global temperature by only seven-hundredths of a degree by 2050 and fifteen hundredths by 2100. We wouldn't even notice it.”
Follow this link to read his testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee on February 25, 2009, and read Birger's article at Fortune Magazine for more information.
Monday, June 15, 2009
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