Climate change as a scapegoat in water science, technology and management

D. Koutsoyiannis, Climate change as a scapegoat in water science, technology and management, EUREAU Workshop on Climate Changes Impact on Water Resources with Emphasis on Potable Water, Chania, doi:10.13140/RG.2.2.35519.71843, European Association of Water and Wastewater Services, Hellenic Union of Water and Wastewater Enterprises, 2008.

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Note added on 2010-02-12: The link pointing to the quotation of Sir John Houghton is now broken. An alive link in the same server is http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/ld200708/ldselect/ldeconaf/195/195we07.htm. However, it appears that the quotation is untrue (see http://environment.independentminds.livejournal.com/268431.html and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T._Houghton). The correct quotation, which should replace that in slide 6, is " Global warming is now a weapon of mass destruction". This appears in Houghton’s article in the Guardian, http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2003/jul/28/environment.greenpolitics. (Update on 2010-08-22: see also http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/letters/7958485/What-is-the-best-way-to-help-the-worlds-deserving-poor.html, section "An apology withdrawn").

Note added on 2017-04-13: Even the alternative link of the UK parliament given in the previous note is now broken but can be found in the WayBack machine, https://web.archive.org/web/20111014180355/http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/ld200708/ldselect/ldeconaf/195/195we07.htm. Furthermore, the quotation appears now (but not in an original text by Houghton) in a book by the Great Britain Parliament, House of Lords: "The Economics of Renewable Energy: Recent Developments", 4th Report of Session 2007-08, Volume 2 (see https://books.google.gr/books?id=pUSoZEjpBGIC&pg=PA234).

Our works that reference this work:

1. D. Koutsoyiannis, C. Makropoulos, A. Langousis, S. Baki, A. Efstratiadis, A. Christofides, G. Karavokiros, and N. Mamassis, Climate, hydrology, energy, water: recognizing uncertainty and seeking sustainability, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 13, 247–257, doi:10.5194/hess-13-247-2009, 2009.

Other works that reference this work (this list might be obsolete):

1. Kutílek, M., Soils and climate change, Soil and Tillage Research, 117, 1-7, 2011.

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