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We should keep our planet livable and if it is getting hotter and hotter this can give
a positive feedback and the temperature can get out of control and then there is no rescue.
How much has sea level risen in the last four years?
I ain't ... erm .. I do not study meteorology or
It has hardly risen at all. But have you seen reports in the media that sea level is rising
ever more rapidly?
I think so.
There's a ... a phrase in English there: "Climate Change is a fact"'. It's been a fact for four
billion years, hasn't it?
I think it's so.
In the last ten or fifteen years has the world got warmer or stayed the same or got cooler?
I don't know.
You tell me what temperature should the earth be on average
Now, err...
What is the best temperature for the earth?
...
The temperature today?
Yes it's ... I don't know it's errm ... it's not the s.. it's not everyday the same temperature.
Alright.
And now. Most creatures in the world live in the warmer parts of the world, very few
creatures live in the colder parts of the world. So isn't it the fact that warmer is
better for health?
No.
Well ... What do you want me to say?
I'm asking you the question.
Are you surprised to find there has been no global warming for fifteen years?
And you have no doubt?
I have checked ... I have checked the data. Four datasets.
How do you ... how do you know that?
Because I take the data from the satellites and I then plot what is called the least squares
linear regression trend which means if you have a stochastic dataset, one which jumps
up and down, you can process it mathematically to show what its trend is over a given period.
And over the last fifteen years there has been no statistically significant increase
in temperature at all. Those are the facts. How do you react to those facts?
I think ... I mean it's positive thinking [hehe] quite honestly.
You think it's good news?!
It's absolutely good news. Yeah.
Please go back to Greepeace who organized this event and and ... alright ... and ask
whoever sent you here why they sent you here, now that you know that there has been no global
warming for fifteen years. I want you to ask them that.
I don't understand this question.
And Greenpeace is a campaigning organization isn't it?
What do you mean by campaigning organization?
Well it's not a weather bureau, is it?
No of course not.
It's ...eh... you have a lot of facts. You have more facts than in ... in my head