Global Warming - twice as bad?
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From: Transition Zone on 5 May 2010 14:19 The Purple Panther wrote: Global warming poses twice as great a threat to the planet as has so far been believed, the world's leading scientists have concluded. Meeting in Shanghai, China, they finalised early this week the starkest and most authoritative official warning yet on how the Earth's climate is changing. The product of three years' work by the 3,000 top experts in the field, the 1,000- page report ends two decades of scientific debate over whether human activities are causing climate change to take place. It is the most important document yet produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the official UN body set up by the world's governments to provide the ultimate scientific judgement on what is happening to the climate, and comes after two less- alarming assessments in 1990 and 1995. The scientists conclude that their previous reports gravely underestimated the extent to which the world may heat up and now calculate that it could happen almost twice as fast as they had thought. Their last report, six years ago, concluded that the world's average temperature would rise by a maximum of 3C by the end of this century. The new one - which is based on more powerful computer modelling and a better understanding of how the Earth's atmoshere workds - has almost doubled this to 5.8C. Such an average rise - which would be even greater in temperate areas and at the poles - would certainly melt the Arctic ice-cap and have an enormous and devastating impact on harvests and civilisation. The new report also concludes unequivocally for the first time that global warming is taking place and that pollution caused by human activities is to blame. It reports "new and stronger evidence that most of the observed warming of the last 50 years is attributable to human activities". In its 1995 assessment, the IPCC would go no further than saying that "the balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate". The new report also signals a final acceptance by the world's governments that global warming is happening and is likely to be much worse than expected, since they participate in the IPCC and are the ultimate arbiters of its conclusions. Some governments, notably those of the Opec states, continue to deny that global warming is taking place or poses a threat, and they may be joined by the new US administration. President Bush has repeatedly attacked the global warming negotiations on the grounds that an international agreement to combat global warming would force Americans to "walk to work". Why does Bush think that walking to work is such an evil thing? Clinton, his predecessor, seemed to believe that inhaling was wrong (and claimed that he didn't). http://www.network54.com/hide/forum/73876
From: Eddie Haskell on 5 May 2010 15:53 "Transition Zone" <mogulah(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:e10574ad-ef65-455f-a6b3-896cf9b115e7(a)i10g2000yqh.googlegroups.com... > The Purple Panther wrote: > > Global warming poses twice as great a threat to the planet as has so > far been > believed, the world's leading scientists have concluded. Yeah, we're all gonna die. You might as well get it over with now. -Eddie Haskell
From: softsofa on 5 May 2010 17:17 On Wed, 5 May 2010 14:53:02 -0500, "Eddie Haskell" <iopmc(a)ddvtt.com> wrote: >"Transition Zone" <mogulah(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message >news:e10574ad-ef65-455f-a6b3-896cf9b115e7(a)i10g2000yqh.googlegroups.com... >> The Purple Panther wrote: >> >> Global warming poses twice as great a threat to the planet as has so >> far been >> believed, the world's leading scientists have concluded. >Yeah, we're all gonna die. You might as well get it over with now. Boiled like lobsters! Gah! Gaaaaaaaaah!!! Mmmmmm... lobster. []softsofa[]
From: Marvin the Martian on 5 May 2010 23:16 AGWer: You're all gonna Die!! John Q Public: Um, yeah. AGWer (frustrated): It's TWICE as bad as what I said it was before!!! You're gonna die TWICE!!
From: Bret Cahill on 5 May 2010 23:30 Everyone is a denier more or less. > Global warming poses twice as great a threat to the planet as has so > far been > believed, the world's leading scientists have concluded. Meeting in > Shanghai, > China, they finalised early this week the starkest and most > authoritative > official warning yet on how the Earth's climate is changing. The > product of > three years' work by the 3,000 top experts in the field, the 1,000- > page report > ends two decades of scientific debate over whether human activities > are causing > climate change to take place. It is the most important document yet > produced > by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the official > UN body > set up by the world's governments to provide the ultimate scientific > judgement > on what is happening to the climate, and comes after two less- > alarming > assessments in 1990 and 1995. > > The scientists conclude that their previous reports gravely > underestimated the > extent to which the world may heat up and now calculate that it could > happen > almost twice as fast as they had thought. Their last report, six > years ago, > concluded that the world's average temperature would rise by a maximum > of 3C by > the end of this century. The new one - which is based on more > powerful > computer modelling and a better understanding of how the Earth's > atmoshere > workds - has almost doubled this to 5.8C. Such an average rise - > which would > be even greater in temperate areas and at the poles - would certainly > melt the > Arctic ice-cap and have an enormous and devastating impact on harvests > and > civilisation. > > The new report also concludes unequivocally for the first time that > global > warming is taking place and that pollution caused by human activities > is to > blame. It reports "new and stronger evidence that most of the > observed warming > of the last 50 years is attributable to human activities". In its > 1995 > assessment, the IPCC would go no further than saying that "the balance > of > evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate". > The new > report also signals a final acceptance by the world's governments that > global > warming is happening and is likely to be much worse than expected, > since they > participate in the IPCC and are the ultimate arbiters of its > conclusions. > > Some governments, notably those of the Opec states, continue to deny > that > global warming is taking place or poses a threat, and they may be > joined by the > new US administration. President Bush has repeatedly attacked the > global > warming negotiations on the grounds that an international agreement to > combat > global warming would force Americans to "walk to work". > > Why does Bush think that walking to work is such an evil thing? Repugliars like a lot of obese folk waddling around. They are very submissive. Bret Cahill
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