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Published online 19 October 2009 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2009.1019
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Major economies meeting struggles with climate
Many hurdles remain on the road to Copenhagen summit in December.
The world's largest economies have made incremental progress toward securing a global climate deal, but nations remain at an impasse over how to share the burden of responsibility for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
It will be an "uphill battle" to get a deal at the United Nations climate summit in Copenhagen in December, UK energy and climate change secretary Ed Miliband said on 19 October.
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In my opinion current discussionrelated to the climate changes is concentrated on marginal subjects which have been expanded to a worldwide scale due to incorrect recognizing the real causes of these changes. According to my study this is the warming of the climate is responsible for increasing amount of CO2 in the atmosphere, but not the reverse that this gas is causing an increase in warming.
However the real cause of climate warming is increase of insolation of the Earth's surface an oceanic waters in particular (deserting of the oceans) what means a reduced ability to absorb carbon dioxide from atmosphere and become the most important source of rise of this gas in the atmosphere.
Mentioned above increaseof insolation of the oceanic waters is effect of ultimate finishing of the last ice era (Ice Age) what makes that no glacial periods will appear in future. The Earth's albedo was substantially lessened in comparison to the Ice Age and its insolation is permanently increasing. the Earth has now entered a worm ere. This ers is characterized by atmospheric temperature which is permanently increasing. This era is probably going to lasting milions of years without any glacial periods appearing, as many similar eras in the Earth's long history.
Thus the actual changes in climate have an objective character (an act of Nature) and cannot be averted by the actions of human beings. Men can only undertake measures that can make them less sever and attempt to adapt to the new conditions.
So it seems necessary to reconsider actual so called remedial actions undertaken in aim reduction of the climate warming in form of reduction of the emission of the greenhouse gases only and undertake many entirely new remedial efforts.