Report: Global Warming Is Here, Now

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

(AP)  An early version of the ever-changing draft report said "observations of coherent warming in the global atmosphere, in the ocean, and in snow and ice now provide stronger joint evidence of warming."

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.

[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!

[fallngempire]

"Edited word by word by government officials"

Translation: Prepare to be lied to. Again.

[bildooreilly]

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

[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...

[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

[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

[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?

[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.

[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?

[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.

[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.