Global Warming To "Continue For Centuries"

Report From Top Scientists Urges Countries To Take Action, Calls Global Warming "Unequivocal"

(CBS/AP)  The warning from a top panel of international scientists was blunt and dire: "warming of the climate system is unequivocal," the cause is "very likely" man-made, and the menace will "continue for centuries."

Authors of the 21-page report released Friday on why the planet is warming by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change placed the onus on governments to stop prevaricating and take action.

The report highlighted "increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global mean sea level," the report said.

The best climate scientists on the planet say it is clear the earth is getting warmer and greenhouse gases produced since the industrial revolution are to blame, reports CBS News correspondent Mark Phillips from Paris.

The report said man-made emissions of greenhouse gases can already be blamed for fewer cold days, hotter nights, killer heat waves, floods and heavy rains, devastating droughts and an increase in hurricane and tropical storm strength — particularly in the Atlantic Ocean.

A top U.S. government scientist, Susan Solomon, said "there can be no question that the increase in greenhouse gases are dominated by human activities."

The message to be taken from the report is "it's later than we think," Solomon said from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration during an interview with The Associated Press.

A White House science advisor praised the report, saying it "captures and summarizes the current state of client change research." A statement released Friday said the study reflects "the robust body of knowledge" on climate change science.

The statement, however, makes no mention of any forthcoming changes in the administration's policy on climate change. The statement also mirrors much of what was said by U.S. officials at the climate change meeting, CBS News correspondent Peter Maer reports.

The report and the scientists who wrote it called the document conservative — only using peer-reviewed published science, edited by representatives of 113 governments that also had to agree to every word. It is a snapshot of where the world is with global warming and where it is heading, but does not tell government officials what to do.

Yet if nothing is done, the world is looking at more than 1 million dead and hundreds of billions of dollars in costs adapting to a warmer world with more extreme weather, study co-author Kevin Trenberth said in an interview.

The next step is up to public officials, scientists said. "I want to see action — not messages," said Swiss scientist Thomas Stocker, a co-author.

"It is critical that we look at this report ... as a moment where the focus of attention will shift from whether climate change is linked to human activity, whether the science is sufficient, to what on earth are we going to do about it," U.N. Environment Program Executive Director Achim Steiner said.

"The public should not sit back and say 'There's nothing we can do'," Steiner said. "Anyone who would continue to risk inaction on the basis of the evidence presented here will one day in the history books be considered irresponsible."

Another report by the panel later this year will address the most effective measures for slowing global warming.

If it looks bad now, the harmful effects during the 21st century "would very likely be larger than those observed during the 20th century," the report said.

[godin6]

it's important to not be fooled by preconceptual science...man-made global warming is all the fashion at the moment...but where is the proof that it is man-made???


Oregon Petition Project
19,700 Top scientists from all over the world
signed the following anti-global warming petition
in 2001

http://www.oism.org/pproject/index.htm

There is no convincing scientific evidence that human
release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other
greenhouse gasses is causing or will, in the
foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the
Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's
climate. Moreover, there is substantial scientific
evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide
produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant
and animal environments of the Earth.


Carbon dioxide is to blame??

http://www.friendsofscience.org/index.php?ide=4

CO2 constitutes about 0.037% of the atmosphere...
Water vapour and clouds are are thought to be
responsible for 60% of the "Greenhouse effect"!!

[godin6]

it's important to not be fooled by preconceptual science...man-made global warming is all the fashion at the moment...but where is the proof that it is man-made???


Oregon Petition Project
19,700 Top scientists from all over the world
signed the following anti-global warming petition
in 2001

http://www.oism.org/pproject/index.htm

There is no convincing scientific evidence that human
release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other
greenhouse gasses is causing or will, in the
foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the
Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's
climate. Moreover, there is substantial scientific
evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide
produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant
and animal environments of the Earth.


Carbon dioxide is to blame??

http://www.friendsofscience.org/index.php?ide=4

CO2 constitutes about 0.037% of the atmosphere...
Water vapour and clouds are are thought to be
responsible for 60% of the "Greenhouse effect"!!

[rharrin1]

bush is not about to let these silly and ridiculous reports to get in the way of using his newly acquired oil.

[antoniof123]

I told you it was too late and like a snowball it will continue to become larger and lager as it goes down hill. They say the end of the century what happens if they are wrong? Just a question I think that you can only do so much damage to a body before it dies and well if we reach that point with Earth then it too will face the same conclusion.

[adkrandy]

Global warming is only one possible side effect of our addiction to fossil fuels. What has been proven is that our air quality is declining, our fresh watersheds are deteriating, our dependence on foreign energy is increasing. For example, most Adirondack lakes and streams are alomst dead from fossil fuel burning polution and will not support the native brook trout . Oil and war mongers open your eyes to the reality of the situation we have created. We need leadership that address real issues that will effect us for generations. Remeber, we borrow this land and the environment from our children. We are not acting as good stewards.

[skyk-2009]

CO2 constitutes about 0.037% of the atmosphere...
Water vapour and clouds are are thought to be
responsible for 60% of the "Greenhouse effect"!!
Posted by godin6 at 07:36 AM : Feb 02, 2007


You can't be serious? You know I've listened to Con's defend and refuse to accept some awlful bad things in my years. I've seen Con's bury their heads in the sand while some very harmful things have happened but this? How can anyone just shrug off this? I know fundies are doing that even to the point of one of their Senators calling it a lie but come on!! Anyone who is willing to accept Robertson and Fartwell over Scientist are simply out of their collective minds.

[luvny-2009]

Well wasn't it Bush that blew off making the big Corps regulate and reduce all that cr@p they are shooting into the air. He didn't want to pi$$ off his big Corp buddies.

[rumi3]

godin6

The report must have been edited by bush white house
attorney the one that later resigned and went to work for Exxon.look at the following report:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0i4Sx1edJE

yes I mean the axis of denial Bush white house.
don't worry about your SUV thanks to democrats we will stop making them. so I suggest you sign up to buy your first electric car. and oh yes by the way we will no longer go to war and cause half a million death so we can have the oil either.

[observantx]

Here%u2019s an interesting little tidbit from the Guardian, a British newspaper.

It is reported that offers are being made to scientists and economists in the amount of $10,000 plus expenses if they are willing to find faults or poke holes in the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report that strongly indicates that global warming is caused by the human activity of burning fossil fuels.

Guess who is making that offer?

Exxon Mobil, the company that has just reported their biggest profit ever, $39.5 billion.

Now I guess we can see where they want to invest those profits.

[huskerarmy]

"Water vapour and clouds are are thought to be
responsible for 60% of the "Greenhouse effect"!!"

Lord you neo-cons would be funny if your stubborn, deliberate stupidity weren't so damned tragic!

[exusmcsgt]

"Sharon Hays, associate director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy at the White House, welcomed the strong language of the report.

Hays stopped short of saying whether or how the report could bring about change in President Bush's policy about greenhouse gas emissions."

Geez...how surprising is that from this administration?

Bush missed the boat back in 2001 in rejecting the Kyoto agreement. His justification then was that it was all malarkey.

What foresight! What wisdom!

The same kind of wisdom he demonstrated dragging us into Iraq.

[huskerarmy]

"Hays stopped short of saying whether or how the report could bring about change in President Bush's policy about greenhouse gas emissions."

Can you say "same old..." boys and girls? I knew you could.

[bigwhtpony]

More greenhouse gasses are emitted by Ted Kennedy than a farm of flatulent cows. Since we can't do anything about global warming, can we stop talking about it???

Thanks!

[rafterman1]

"Since we can't do anything about global warming, can we stop talking about it???"

You'd make a great scientist. "Hey, we can't cure cancer so...let's not bother trying". If we don't talk about it, then we'll definitely nopt figure out how to stop it.

[exusmcsgt]

Rafterman1 -

I think bigwhtpony has a very appropriate name, don't you?

Considering he is definitely a horse's a$$ and all?

[frankly6]

We have two choices now that we can all see clearly what's coming. We can think progressively and lead the world in developing new technologies to curb the effects of global warming. Or we can take the conservative route and stick our heads in the sand and await the inevitable.

Had we spent the trillion plus dollars that we are going to spend in Iraq on developing alternative energy sources we'd be energy independent within a few years. Then we wouldn't be stuck relying on people who hate us for the lifeblood of our economy.

[huskerarmy]

"Since we can't do anything about global warming, can we stop talking about it???"

What a waste of human flesh, not to mention key strokes.

[exusmcsgt]

Had we spent the trillion plus dollars that we are going to spend in Iraq on developing alternative energy sources we'd be energy independent within a few years. Then we wouldn't be stuck relying on people who hate us for the lifeblood of our economy.

Posted by frankly6 at 09:45 AM : Feb 02, 2007

True, but you forget that these people we rely on are Exxon, BP, Phillips, et.al. upon whom Bush relies as well and takes very good care of, bro.

Think there might be a cause and effect relationship there, maybe?

[clestes-2009]

Gee, I wonder if this has opened Shrub's eyes any since 2000 when openly doubted global warming was even happening. I doubt it. He is as stupid about climate change as he is about Iraq.

What a pitiful example of US president. Blind, deaf and dumb pretty much covers it.

Can't see what is plain to most everyone.
Can't hear any dissenting opinion.
Can't speak clear english.

Next 2 years is going to be an ever faster out of control, downward spiral.

[rmsdm4]

A couple of key points will be missed by the global warming cult. First, they choose to ignore that the 1930's were the warmest decade on record. Also, they remove the warming period during the middle ages. If you put these two events into their "scientific" data, the earth is actually gotten cooler. This is why in the 1970's scientist were predicting a new ice age. But an ice age won't get grant money. So, data is removed and voila global warming. Now people who don't want to work for a living continue receiving money to support an anti-capitalist agenda.

[godseyesore-2009]

GBush and henchmen will deny this finding also.
Unconsciousnable..but hey, that's US for ya.

[shingles1]

"More greenhouse gasses are emitted by Ted Kennedy than a farm of flatulent cows."

This comment captures the state of the modern conservative movement perfectly. Stuck on repeat and stuck in the past with no new ideas whatsoever. Ted Kennedy jokes might have been funny TWENTY years ago - but after hearing them for the one thousandth time, they just lose their "edge". Man.

[exusmcsgt]

shingles1-

As if Hestert is any different with that gut he can barely ambulate.

[bigwhtpony]

Don't be hate'n! :) I'm sort of close to being a scientist....my undergrad is in electrical engineering. And bigwhtpony has nothing to do the equine family. wink, wink :)

[brainworms1]

Everyone seems to be missing the point here. Global warming is happening and will continue for centuries. Who really cares if it's manmade or natural?

A million people will die? Big deal. World War 2 alone killed 52 million and that's hardly made a dent. World population has more than doubled since I was born and it seemed crowded back then. When it quit's snowing in the Sierras of California, there'll be no snow pack, meaning no slow run-off through the summer months, meaning no irrigation water for the most productive farmland in the world. Same for the Andes, the Himalayas, the Alps etc. Then it's famine time boys and girls. A billion electric cars won't prevent that. Much better to break out your contour maps of Alaska, find a nice little spot near Ketchikan above the new waterline buy yourself (and your great grandkids) some future coastal property and enjoy those sweltering, 18 hour-long summer days of the future.

[frankly6]

rmsdm4

Pure garbage. This is the warmest decade on record.

[brainworms1]

Everyone seems to be missing the point here. Global warming is happening and will continue for centuries. Who really cares if it's manmade or natural?

A million people will die? Big deal. World War 2 alone killed 52 million and that's hardly made a dent. World population has more than doubled since I was born and it seemed crowded back then. When it quit's snowing in the Sierras of California, there'll be no snow pack, meaning no slow run-off through the summer months, meaning no irrigation water for the most productive farmland in the world. Same for the Andes, the Himalayas, the Alps etc. Then it's famine time boys and girls. A billion electric cars won't prevent that. Much better to break out your contour maps of Alaska, find a nice little spot near Ketchikan above the new waterline buy yourself (and your great grandkids) some future coastal property and enjoy those sweltering, 18 hour-long summer days of the future.

[shingles1]

"But an ice age won't get grant money."

Unlike the "pure" global warming-denying scientists (all five of them) who receive all their funding from major corporations. No money there whatsoever.

[huskerarmy]

rmsdm4,

What a line of plutocratic propaganda. That "cult" you are talking about is the worlds scientific community. My sister and brother-in-law are two of those scientists who, while working 12 hours a day, are hardly people who don't want to work any more. Anyone can come up with anecdotal data to "disprove" the empirical body of scientific evidence. But to believe that the scientific community is engaging in a worldwide conspiracy in order to bring down the benevolent high priests of capitolism is the deliberate kind of blind worship that amounts to nothing more than metaphysical self-mutilation.

[frankly6]

The national academy of sciences reviewed every published, peer-reviewed, scientific, study done on Global Warming in the last ten years. 100% of these studies agreed on three things:

1.GLOBAL WARMING IS REAL

2. THE CONSEQUENCES OF GLOBAL WARMING WILL BE DEVESTATING TO ALL LIFE ON THIS PLANET

3. GLOBAL WARMING IS CAUSED BY MAN

The scientific community has been united on this for years. The so-called debate is just a misinformation campaign funded by the fossil fuel industries who stand to lose a lot of money as we switch to more sustainable ways of living.

It's not surprising that conservative are the ones dragging their feet and denying reality in the face of overwhelming evidence. They are like a car with only one gear, reverse. They are two busy looking back to look forward or think about the future.

[huskerarmy]

"I'm sort of close to being a scientist....my undergrad is in electrical engineering. And bigwhtpony has nothing to do the equine family. wink, wink :)"

I'm sort of close to being a Supreme Court justice. I did go to law school... And to think, all this time I just thought you just mispelled "phony."

[shingles1]

"This is why in the 1970's scientist were predicting a new ice age."

This is also a distortion.
In the 1970's a HANDFUL of scientists predicted this based in part upon the idea that air pollution was blocking the sun - and a few popular magazines decided to turn this into cover stories.
A handful is not a consensus.
With global warming or climate its the reverse - a pretty clear and overwhelming consensus that this is happening.

[huskerarmy]

"The national academy of sciences reviewed every published, peer-reviewed, scientific, study done on Global Warming in the last ten years. 100% of these studies agreed on three things..."

frankly6, You're going to have to do better than 100% if you want to reach these koolaid drinking, neo-con androids.

[frankly6]

huskerarmy

It's amazing how immune to the truth these neocon nuts are. You give them the science and they just keep paroting their daily talking points.

[huskerarmy]

"...we can suck this for a trillion dollars and not have to account for even a penny of it... %u2019cause we%u2019re %u201CNONPROFIT!%u201D and we can live like kings, sucking raisins and Mexican caviar,"

But of course if a scientist really want to sell out and "live like a king," he goes to work for the big oil companies. You'd think another quarter of record profits would have been enough to satisfy the tools for a while.

[wantless]

In my opinion global warming and a lot of other problems, has been created by OUR OWN GREED ! WE cannot blame our government for the earths condition. However we should blame ourselves for all thoe's wants. A very simple thing WE CAN ALL DO IS PLANT ONE TREE for each person in your family, IT"S A START. love and peace ALAN

[shingles1]

Only a modern conservative would consider scientists "mammonites" and greedy corporations, WHOSE ENTIRE REASON FOR BEING IS TO MAKE MONEY, ethical and pure.

Is dropping your child on it's head part of the conservative child rearing handbook or something? I do not know how else to explain this cultish a$$backwardness.

[huskerarmy]

"You give them the science and they just keep paroting their daily talking points."

Science, smience... they've got faith. Hallaluiah!

[frankly6]

The National Academy of Sciences reviewed every published, peer-reviewed, scientific, study done on Global Warming in the last ten years. 100% of these studies agreed on three things:

1.GLOBAL WARMING IS REAL

2. THE CONSEQUENCES OF GLOBAL WARMING WILL BE DEVESTATING TO ALL LIFE ON THIS PLANET

3. GLOBAL WARMING IS CAUSED BY MAN

The scientific community has been united on this for years. The so-called debate is just a misinformation campaign funded by the fossil fuel industries who stand to lose a lot of money as we switch to more sustainable ways of living.

It's not surprising that conservatives are the ones dragging their feet and denying reality in the face of overwhelming evidence. They are like a car with only one gear, reverse. They are two busy looking back to look forward or think about the future.

[huskerarmy]

"Only a modern conservative would consider scientists "mammonites" and greedy corporations, WHOSE ENTIRE REASON FOR BEING IS TO MAKE MONEY, ethical and pure."

Galileo was a liberal conspirator who claimed the world was round so as to unermine the authority of the wise and benevolent Church. What is it about black/red, bottom line profit margins that they don't get?

[huskerarmy]

Now those liberal conspirators have infiltrated the Naval Research Laboratory:

http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30D1FFD3C5E0C738DDDAB0894DC404482&n=Top%2fNews%2fScience%2fTopics%2fGlobal%20Warming

[bigwhtpony]

That's right...let's give them the science. Do a Google search on the "medieval warming period." Oh, sorry...the libs don't want you to know about that.

They also don't want you to know about the other 5 warming periods throughout recorded history....as in, it was warmer then it is now.

Overall, we're up 10C. So you libs keep running around with your hair on fire and screaming, "the sky is falling." We "neocons" sit back and watch with amused sympathy.

[bigwhtpony]

sorry...that should be one (1) degree C

[notblue]

Carbon dioxide is the primary gas being targeted for the increase in warming. The number one cause of carbon dioxide emmissions in the world is human and mamal exhilation, ofcourse that point is never mentioned by the press because it would require worldwide population control. The reality is that no matter the cause whether it be hiuman intervention or normal climate cycles we humans have very little control. Mother earth takes care of herself and will continue to do so. A better plan may to prepare for the resulting events as bast us humans can.

[bigwhtpony]

Update: I just read where NPR only interviewed the climate scientists who would blame global warming on man.

They passed on the ones who disagreed.

That's the intellectual honesty and science you get from the left.

[elliottcpsr]

Don't worry about global warming, George Bush in his ultimate wisdom has that covered also!

The nuclear winter resulting from him starting world war three will reverse the impact of global warming and the impact of humans on this planet.

[bigwhtpony]

Notblue, you are correct. No one is saying we shouldn't do anything. Only a fool would continue to smoke even though we know the consequences of that behavior.

If we can all do a little something to help out, I believe we should. I think it's our obligation to future generations.

What I disagree with are the whacked out lefties who want to suppress capitilism and our very way of life in order to bow before the alter of world opinion. That's why Kyoto was voted down.

[racam-2009]

The report is only significant if someone pays attention to it and learns from it. These scientist that published the report are talking about centuries down the road. People there won't be centuries to worry about this warming. These same scientist are amazed at how quickly all of this is taking place. Al Gore started talking about this a while ago but he is a Democrat and he is lying and leading people to hell in a handbasket. That is according to the people in power at the time. It is real and it is man-made. Anyone can look to the skies in a highly industrialized city and you will be able to tell where the polution is coming from that is causing this effect.

[bigwhtpony]

That's right, Elliott.....continue to worship at the feet of the First Reverand of the Church of the Burning Globe - Al Gore.

It must hurt to go through life that dumb.

[rmsdm4]

A few scientist in the 70's were picked up by magazines and the media to puport their ideas of a coming ice age and stifle capitalism.

A few scientist in the 00's were picked up by magazines and the media to purport their ideas of global warming and stifle capitalism.

A few scientist in the 2030's were picked up by magazines and the media to purport their ideas of temperature stability and stifle capitalism.

It will go on and on and on. Like the old saying, "There's a sucker born every minute".