Report: Global Warming Is Here, Now

"Smoking Gun" Said To Be In Global Climate Report To Be Released Next Week

(AP)  Human-caused global warming is here — visible in the air, water and melting ice — and is destined to get much worse in the future, an authoritative global scientific report will warn next week.

"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.

[clestes-2009]

The single largest problem this earth will face in the next century. All you nay sayers can think what you want. No amount of evidence is going to change your minds anyway. The entire Greenland icepack could melt and you would all be saying "it just cyclical". I don't know if you are lazy and the whole idea of doing something about it is too much work or you are so scared it is time to stick the head in the sand. Does not matter.

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.

[rf35]

cbscrash07, the MSNBC article defines %u201Cvery likely%u201D as 90-99% probability. Sounds like they would have some evidence to back that up. Maybe you should read the whole report...you%u2019ll probably find some of that evidence you want there. "The February report will have 'much stronger evidence now of human actions on the change in climate that's taken place.'"

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.

[Syndicate]

Where is the evidence? Im pretty good at science and if a logical argument can be made make it. The msnbc version of this story quotes scientist as saying global warming is "Very Likley" the result of humans. Very likley? So there not sure? They think they know but thier not sure. I'm sticking with the sun heating up theory until some one prooves it wrong. I hate the political aspect of this. For example all the pro global warming people were quick to point to the hurricanes from a couple years ago. As a result of global warming. The next season nothing. Explain that. Simple we are not as smart as we think we are. So what do we do?

[edjohn66]

"They used to scream save the whales now it's "save the glaciers" next it will be something else stupid like "Save the desert" stop the rain... These people never stop.."


You know, I've always known how stupid Republicans are. I'm just surprised at how aggressively they will defend their idiocy.

[adventurepa]

The tragady in all this is nothing will change except the environment. The talking points are nice, but do nothing to turn global warming around.
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?

[ralsand]

Dear Erasmus6,
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

[ralsand]

Yes, it's here. I call it my furnace and leaking windows.
Would you like to buy some water front property in the desert?

ralsand
Gulf Breeze, Fl

[bildooreilly]

They used to scream save the whales now it's "save the glaciers" next it will be something else stupid like "Save the desert" stop the rain... These people never stop...

[bildooreilly]

I wish it would hurry up and make its way here, I'm freezing my *** off...

[fallngempire]

"Edited word by word by government officials"

Translation: Prepare to be lied to. Again.

[erasmus6]

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!