WASHINGTON, Jan. 22, 2007
Report: Global Warming Is Here, Now
"Smoking Gun" Said To Be In Global Climate Report To Be Released Next Week
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Marc Olefs and Andrea Fischer, from left, researchers from Innsbruck University, check a field covered with white polyethylene against the backdrop of jagged peaks, at Eisgrat skiing station on Stubai glacier near the village of Neustift-im-Stubaital, in this July 4, 2005 photo. Most glaciers will disappear from the Alps by 2050, scientists told a conference on climate change Monday, Jan. 22, 2007. (AP)
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Interactive Global Warming The greenhouse effect, a look at the Kyoto Protocol and a history of the Earth's climate.
"The smoking gun is definitely lying on the table as we speak," said top U.S. climate scientist Jerry Mahlman, who reviewed all 1,600 pages of the first segment of a giant four-part report. "The evidence ... is compelling."
Andrew Weaver, a Canadian climate scientist and study co-author, went even further: "This isn't a smoking gun; climate is a batallion of intergalactic smoking missiles."
The first phase of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is being released in Paris next week. This segment, written by more than 600 scientists and reviewed by another 600 experts and edited by bureaucrats from 154 countries, includes "a significantly expanded discussion of observation on the climate," said co-chair Susan Solomon, a senior scientist for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. She and other scientists held a telephone briefing on the report Monday.
That report will feature an "explosion of new data" on observations of current global warming, Solomon said.
Solomon and others wouldn't go into specifics about what the report says. They said that the 12-page summary for policymakers will be edited in secret word-by-word by government officials for several days next week and released to the public on Feb. 2. The rest of that first report from scientists will come out months later.
The full report will be issued in four phases over the year, as was the case with the last IPCC report, issued in 2001.
Global warming is "happening now, it's very obvious," said Mahlman, a former director of NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lab who lives in Boulder, Colo. "When you look at the temperature of the Earth, it's pretty much a no-brainer."
Look for an "iconic statement" — a simple but strong and unequivocal summary — on how global warming is now occurring, said one of the authors, Kevin Trenberth, director of climate analysis at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, also in Boulder.
The February report will have "much stronger evidence now of human actions on the change in climate that's taken place," Rajendra K. Pachauri told the AP in November. Pachauri, an Indian climatologist, is the head of the international climate change panel.
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The rest of us who already know climate change is happening will work today to save your sorry ***** and those of your children and grandchildren.
If you%u2019re so sure the sun is heating up, how about some evidence of that? Where%u2019s the report from multiple, credible sources to back that up? Has any real scientist even theorized that as a possibility? The space agencies from at least a few countries are quite interested in the sun (since it can cause issues for manned space flight) and I think they would have noticed a change major enough to affect our planet%u2019s climate by now.
You know, I've always known how stupid Republicans are. I'm just surprised at how aggressively they will defend their idiocy.
We need to do something now. The people in power will continue their politics as usual and nothing will change.
You said it best fallngempire,
"Edited word by word by government officials"
Translation: Prepare to be lied to. Again.
Nothing will change until we as a society stop putting ourselfs and our own greed as the most important things...
When was the last time you sacrificed anything?
Let me get this straight. You are not one of the people living on this planet as the general public.
Now let see, you alone to not contribute to the problem.
You of course, do not have Central AC/Heat. You don't own a automoble. You do not own clothes as they are produced by those terrible industrialist. Thank You
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Translation: Prepare to be lied to. Again.
- by erasmus6 January 23, 2007 2:30 AM EST
- Why are human beings so stupid?? Scientists have been telling us for years about global warming. David Suzuki and Holly Dressel had a book come out in 1999 and in it it said that we had just about reached the point of no return. I disagree, I believe we reached the point of no return years ago. We have run out of time. The people who are polluting our world are living in denial, they are more concerned about the money than about their children and grandchildren. It is going to take years to get these morons to stop polluting our air and our water. Even the general public can't even make the effort to make even the smallest effort as to change there lightbulbs. What I don't get is, never mind global warming, just the fact that cars are putting toxins into the air that we breath, all the chemicals in our food, why hasn't something been done about this just because it is unhealthy? Millions of people are dying from cancer. Isn't that reason enough? But it all just comes down to MONEY! This world is pathetic. And if the media had spent more time covering this subject instead of the "CELEBRITIES" perhaps we could have gotten the information alot sooner. Again it is about the MONEY!
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