WASHINGTON (AFP) – The harmful effects of global warming are being felt “here and now and in your backyard,” a groundbreaking US government report on climate change has warned.
“Climate change is happening now, it is not something that will happen decades or centuries in the future,” Jerry Melillo of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Massachusetts, one of the lead authors of the report, told AFP.
Climate change, which the report blames largely on human-induced emissions of heat-trapping gases, “is under way in the United States and projected to grow,” said the report by the US Global Change Research Program, a grouping of a dozen government agencies and the White House.
The report is the first on climate change since President Barack Obama took office and outlines in plain, non-scientific terms how global warming has resulted in an increase of extreme weather such as the powerful heatwave that swept Europe in 2003, claiming tens of thousands of lives.
Thanks BubbaRay.
#137 – PatDick,
Cite a source instead of continually blowing out your ass and people might one day take you seriously.
Still looks like it’s going up to me … in fact … it looks a bit like … dare I say it … a hockey stick.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperature_record
#139 – MikeN,
From the overview from your own NAS Panel Report link:
So, the most recent 400 years was accurate. The 600 years before that had a bit lower confidence. The hockey stick graph was only 1,000 years, so the last portion about very little confidence has nothing to do with the hockey stick at all.
Here’s a good overview of the controversy on this one out of a great many peer reviewed publications on the subject.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockey_stick_controversy
Note the final paragraph.
So, after all the controversy, the improved dataset still says the same thing as the original statement a decade ago.
Vindicated.
Here’s the full text of the 2008 article.
http://tinyurl.com/lxyh3g
Hey … the graph … still looks just like … a hockey stick!!
What “Al Gore Inc.” is preaching is nothing more than a scary story based around a cyclic event which has been coming around time & again since the big-bang. The fact is that ice will melt, seas will rise, food will become scarce and some species will die out /some may not of course.
Exactly the same model as the dinosaurs, ice-age…hell, even Pompei. Natural disasters have occurred throughout time, why is this so different?
The only real disaster here is that oil/gas/coal companies are a static target and the science community are shooting with both barrels to create a lot of fervor and hike up the research funding – scientists gotta’ eat dude…!
I don’t dispute that the environment is being polluted but so what? It’s inevitable that the human race implodes and kills itself due to it’s collective aggressive nature, what does the earth care. The planet will rejuvenate itself once the infrastructure is given time to naturally.
The only real positive, effective and sustainable way to cut down pollution of the planets’ ecosystem is to restrict the growth of the populous! Stop the uneducated, young, elderly, poor, middle-class, wealthy, religious and stupid classes of society having children at will! Bring in enforced abortion where countries cannot sustain the growth of it’s population – in every nation. Cut the amount of unnecessary births which result in over population and a massive drain on the resources available. Lower the numbers overall.
People are the problem not the technology – just halt the rabbit like spread of the human race instead of flying all over the world and pontificating, over-taxing companies or berating corporations that are only doing what’s natural to companies – making money!
To effect the message of global decay, stop producing the damaging element to the environment – people, not CO2!!
Comments like the one above scare me silly. Human rights are at stake here. Who decides- for whom?
The question is not whether the global climate is changing- it is always changing. The real question is not even whether there is anything that can be done about our ability to thrive in the face of those changes. No.
The essential question is whether we will freely abandon our human rights to big and bigger government over this or any other issue.
If an appropriate response to “climate change’ cannot be found that also insures basic human rights and “liberty for all,” then, yes. I say “Do Nothing!”
What has made America great is our insistence that all individuals be free to pursue “happiness” as they see it. Granting control to government over the very air I breathe is out of the question.
I will not have anyone tell me how much to CO2 to exhale, how many children to have, when (or if) my parents should “go quietly for the greater good,” where I must live, what I must eat (or not eat) or anything else of the kind!
“Climate Cjhange/Global Warming” is shaping up to be little more that a massive grab for political power in the name of the environment. Little attention is being given to real ecological issues, and much to wealth distribution and governmental control over the lives of individuals.
I say- Resist Tyranny in every guise. Whether the Devil appears as a saint or a sinner- he’s still the Devil.