Welcome friends

Thank you for visiting my blog, the Climate Change Science Digest. As inferred by the title, this blog is focused on one mission and one mission only - to present scientific facts and reports as they emerge to better our understanding of Climate Change. As such, I will be blogging regularly as and when new papers and articles are released which serve to inform and explain this most serious of concerns for humanity and the health of our planet.

I come to this topic with a great deal of respect for the scientific process and the general independence and character of long standing scientific institutes and academic bodies. As such, I am not overly swayed by the false equivalency often given to climate change denial. In most cases, denial stories have been proven to be false, misleading, or originated from industries concerned about the short term financial impact of pollution control over any other concerns.

I take a longer term pragmatic view, if climate change is real, then the cost of not addressing in the long term will far outweigh any short term costs of changing how we do business.

The scientific process is not about proving what is correct, it is fundamentally about proving what is incorrect. We know the Earth is not flat, that is proven. We know smoking causes cancer, remember that 30 year PR fight ? The same people that were behind disparaging cancer research linked to smoking are in the game again, stirring up the waters and trying to sow confusion.

However, we are jumping ahead of ourselves. Welcome to this blog and I truelly hope you find this a useful resource for finding timely, informative and wherever possible, peer reviewed quality science articles articulating and refining what we know about climate change, and what is being done to minimize long term impacts on humanity, and the planet as a whole.