Comments on: Future-Present Imperfect Imperative, Part 2 http://www.climate-resistance.org/2009/09/future-present-imperfect-imperative-part-2.html Challenging Climate Orthodoxy Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:46:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Editors http://www.climate-resistance.org/2009/09/future-present-imperfect-imperative-part-2.html#comment-1719 Editors Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:17:32 +0000 http://www.climate-resistance.org/?p=362#comment-1719 Courtesy of a commenter - 'potentilla' - <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/georgemonbiot/2009/sep/16/global-temperature-cooling?commentpage=15" rel="nofollow">at the Guardian's commentisfree site</a>, the New Scientist <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17742-worlds-climate-could-cool-first-warm-later.html" rel="nofollow">quote the Met Office's Vicky Pope</a>. <blockquote>But some of the climate scientists gathered in Geneva to discuss how this might be done admitted that, on such timescales, natural variability is at least as important as the long-term climate changes from global warming. "In many ways we know more about what will happen in the 2050s than next year," said Vicky Pope from the UK Met Office.</blockquote> Courtesy of a commenter – ‘potentilla’ – at the Guardian’s commentisfree site, the New Scientist quote the Met Office’s Vicky Pope.

But some of the climate scientists gathered in Geneva to discuss how this might be done admitted that, on such timescales, natural variability is at least as important as the long-term climate changes from global warming. “In many ways we know more about what will happen in the 2050s than next year,” said Vicky Pope from the UK Met Office.

]]> By: geoffchambers http://www.climate-resistance.org/2009/09/future-present-imperfect-imperative-part-2.html#comment-1718 geoffchambers Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:53:11 +0000 http://www.climate-resistance.org/?p=362#comment-1718 Here’s another new tense for the English language - the continuous future-present - from p14 of the famous Kofi Annan -endorsed Global Humanitarian Forum report, written by a PR firm, but routinely referred to (eg recently by Caroline Lucas) as a UN report : “Figure 2 – The impact of climate change is accelerating over the next 20 years”. Here’s another new tense for the English language – the continuous future-present – from p14 of the famous Kofi Annan -endorsed Global Humanitarian Forum report, written by a PR firm, but routinely referred to (eg recently by Caroline Lucas) as a UN report :
“Figure 2 – The impact of climate change is accelerating over the next 20 years”.

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