Fwd: FINANCIAL TIMES *** The risks of climate disaster demand straight talking

UN ARTICLE très intéressant du financial times qui pourtant parle souvent plus de finance que d'écologie. 

August 5, 2012 8:22 pm

The risks of climate disaster demand straight talking

By Howard Covington and Chris Rapley

These pages often focus on how the eurozone crisis will play out. Yet within a decade, this crisis will resolve itself one way or another. Meanwhile, the more important climate crisis gathers momentum with hardly a word on where it will lead. This is partly because climate change has slipped from the public agenda. But there is also, we suspect, a concern that climate is too contentious and complex a topic for a non-expert commentator to tackle. There may also be a fear that any honest appraisal of the possible course of events risks the charge of alarmism.

In our view, the first is not the case and the second is a poor excuse.