Keeping to a fresh agenda

If you're interested in climate change, you need to be flexible in how you perceive the world around you. It's obvious that there are different realities out there, depending on whom you speak or listen to. So far, almost all the predictions of trends have ended up being too conservative. If anything, the real mistake has been in being too careful about how steep those curves are. While most of the scientific community is now seriously considering a world where the average global temperature will increase by 4 degrees Celsius by the end of this century, many journalists and prominent politicians are still arguing about whether or not we are adjusting to a 2-degree-model. Tonight, on Swedish state television's public affairs program, Agenda, the program's host, Camilla Kvartoft, tried to be impressively aggressive in her interview of the Swedish Minister of Environment, Lena Ek. Kvartoft wasted our time by keeping to her notes that pushed for a discussion based on the 2-degree-mode, whereas Ek seemed interested in talking about concrete climate change response measures. That is, she kept trying to do so, but the show's host kept pushing her into a meaningless 2-degree box. After all, we're heading for 4 degrees, at least, and concrete measures are what we need. In setting our Agenda, Kvartoft is one media star who should get a new scriptwriter. Although she probably meant well, it's too bad she came across as outdated, which weakens her credibility. I'll get my agenda somewhere else, thanks.

It's getting hot in there. The real agenda's in the bag.