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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And the early draft adds: "An increasing body of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on other aspects of climate including sea ice, heat waves and other extremes, circulation, storm tracks and precipitation."
The world's global average temperature has risen about 1.2 degrees Fahrenheit from 1901 to 2005. The two warmest years on record for the world were 2005 and 1998. Last year was the hottest year on record for the United States.
The report will draw on already published peer-review science. Some recent scientific studies show that temperatures are the hottest in thousands of years, especially during the last 30 years; ice sheets in Greenland in the past couple years have shown a dramatic melting; and sea levels are rising and doing so at a faster rate in the past decade.
Also, the second part of the international climate panel's report — to be released in April — will for the first time feature a blockbuster chapter on how global warming is already changing health, species, engineering and food production, said NASA scientist Cynthia Rosenzweig, author of that chapter.
As confident as scientists are about the global warming effects that they've already documented, they are as gloomy about the future and even hotter weather and higher sea level rises. Predictions for the future of global warming in the report are based on 19 computer models, about twice as many as in the past, Solomon said.
In 2001, the panel said the world's average temperature would increase somewhere between 2.5 and 10.4 degrees Fahrenheit and the sea level would rise between 4 and 35 inches by the year 2100. The 2007 report will likely have a smaller range of numbers for both predictions, Pachauri and other scientists said.
The future is bleak, scientists said.
"We have barely started down this path," said chapter co-author Richard Alley of Penn State University.
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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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