Climate change - for better or worse?

Thank you Erland Källén for delivering such a clear and concise lecture on a subject so often overlooked by facts and figures.

So, this Friday morning I together with a group of people attended a seminar by Mr. Källén from the Department of Meteorology at Stockholm University on the synthesis report 2007 on global climate change by IPCC. It was held at the UN Swedish headquarters here in Stockholm with the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali coming up and Erland Källén himself being part of the UN's IPCC Climate Change panel of scientists and researchers.

The lecture included the latest information concluded on climate change that is to be put forward now at the Bali meeting by IPCC. What makes this report stand out and worth paying attention to is the fact that it's presented by the IPCC, which is not just another group among many to deliver their single interpretation on the climate change issue - no. It is probably the most serious report to be presented as a result of joint conclusions based on the observations of various reports already made. With the IPCC panel concisting of scientists and researchers from all over the world.

So, with reports being presented one after another, each contradictory to the other one's case scenario while the world's climate crisis continue to live on, here's one you can trust.

You can read more about the Climate Change Conference in Bali at
http://unfccc.int/meetings/cop_13/items/4049.php

You can also follow the conference online at
http://www.un.org/webcast/unfccc/

Erland Källén's presentation, can be downloaded (even though the text is in Swedish
you might find the statistics and graphs useful) at http://www.fn.se. You just click the text that says "Ladda ner PDF med anteckningar från Erland Källéns seminarium om utmaningar och möjligheter vid FN-toppmötet på Bali om klimatförändringarna »" The text is just right below this image on the page.


So, from this lecture, or from the IPCC report I'd rather to say, there is a climate change occuring with our help. We know it. But as we know this we also know we need to start making a change. The greatest global denominator in this is the energy waste. We know it. Perhaps the question we need to consider to start stepping up is, will that change be for the better or worse case scenario of our future climate?

And let's take it, not as a token of what we have not done but as a springboard towards what we now know we can do. More to come on this.

Keep up the good work!