"Chulalongkorn University scientists are warning the public not to overreact to what they say are frequent exaggerations about climate change and global warming. Sathon Vijarnwannaluk, a lecturer at the physics department, this week voiced concern over a misapprehension about climate change among the public, saying Thai society is currently "climate change crazy". He said the rise and fall of global temperatures occurred over time, just like natural disasters.
"Blaming everything - from frequent storms to natural disasters - on climate change has prevented us from finding the real causes and proper solutions to environmental problems," Mr Sathon said.
For example, water-related agencies had failed to come up with sustainable means of water resource management because they thought floods and drought were caused by climate change which were beyond their ability to deal with, the physicist said.
Mr Sathon and a group of Chulalongkorn scientists on Wednesday held a press conference to try to allay public fears about global warming and the impact of climate change. They also expressed concern over frequent warnings of climate change-triggered natural disasters.Mr Sathon said rising temperatures were a normal phenomenon."Over the past 50 years the world's temperature has fluctuated - this has nothing to do with climate change."
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/1111...-climate-claims
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Chula professors debunk global warming threat
Started by Garcia, Feb 08 2009 12:35 PM
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Posted 08 February 2009 - 01:14 PM
They must have established a Bush/Cheney chair at the University that someone is trying to fill.
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Posted 09 February 2009 - 09:36 AM
I wonder if the Chula academics read this:
"In one of the scariest climate change predictions to date, scientists from the University of Toronto in Canada and Oregon State University in the United States last week revealed the results of extensive exercises in computer modelling that suggest the collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet in a warming world would have far greater impacts on ocean levels than previously believed.
The findings, reported in Science Daily and also published in the prestigious journal Science, say that many coastal areas around the world would be devastated and that because of several geophysical effects the rise in sea level would be greater in North America and the southern Indian Ocean, as much as six or seven metres if the entire ice sheet were to melt."
http://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion...ed-the-warnings
"In one of the scariest climate change predictions to date, scientists from the University of Toronto in Canada and Oregon State University in the United States last week revealed the results of extensive exercises in computer modelling that suggest the collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet in a warming world would have far greater impacts on ocean levels than previously believed.
The findings, reported in Science Daily and also published in the prestigious journal Science, say that many coastal areas around the world would be devastated and that because of several geophysical effects the rise in sea level would be greater in North America and the southern Indian Ocean, as much as six or seven metres if the entire ice sheet were to melt."
http://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion...ed-the-warnings
