Kevin Anderson was on an Irish TV show called Eco Eye the other day. With a title like that one's expectations are not high in the first place and it turned out to be possibly the single most unscientific take on climate change I've ever come across.
Take Kevin Anderson on rates of climate change:
The climate is undoubtedly changing but the climate has always changed, so there's nothing particularly new about this. What is interesting to us and actually disturbing is the rate of change, so the climate is changing as it has always but it is going faster. The rates of change are different to how it has been in the past. And we are as confident as we are about any other area of science that this is due significantly to the emissions that we as human beings put into the atmosphere, principally from burning fossil fuels but also from the production of our food.
Asked for details, Anderson explained that some people in poor countries were experiencing weather that was different to anything they had seen in the past. He went on to say that if we carry on as we are we are going to get temperatures 8°C above those seen in the 2003 heat wave in France. We had someone who seemed to say that warming has accelerated over the last three decades and hurricanes were cited as evidence of climate change.
Does RTE have any editorial control over its own output?