Posted on 06/22/2006 10:26:18 PM PDT by familyop
THE world is hotter than it has been for four centuries - and probably the hottest for 2,000 years - the United States' most prestigious scientific organisation said yesterday.
In a report to the US Congress, the National Academy of Sciences reported that the "recent warmth is unprecedented for at least the last 400 years and potentially the last several millennia".
A panel of top climate scientists told politicians that the Earth is heating up and that "human activities are responsible for much of the recent warming".
Their 155-page report said average global surface temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere rose about 1F during the 20th century.
This is shown in boreholes, retreating glaciers and other evidence found in nature, said Gerald North, a geosciences professor at Texas A&M University who chaired the academy's panel. The report was requested in November by the chairman of the House science committee, Republican Sherwood Boehlert, to address those who question whether global warming is a major threat.
Mr Boehlert said the report shows the value of having scientists advise Congress: "There is nothing in this report that should raise any doubts about the broad scientific consensus on global climate change."
The Bush administration has maintained that the threat is not severe enough to warrant new pollution controls that the White House says would have cost five million Americans their jobs.
Climate scientists Michael Mann, Raymond Bradley and Malcolm Hughes had concluded the Northern Hemisphere was the warmest it has been in 2,000 years.
The National Academy scientists concluded that the Mann-Bradley-Hughes research from the late 1990s was "likely" to be true, said John 'Mike' Wallace, an atmospheric sciences professor at the University of Washington and a panel member. The conclusions from the Nineties research "are very close to being right", and are supported by even more recent data, Mr Wallace said.
Overall, the panel agreed that the warming in the last few decades of the 20th century was unprecedented over the past 1,000 years.
I heard that Bushitler stole the elections on Mars by rigging the Diebold voting machines through the internet.
Nope, we're the only evil ones. Your point is a good one and I believe you're right.
Assuming the 2000 year assertion is correct, I was wondering what you think the charges against Christ were.
Can you limit yourself to being grossly wrong about only one thing per statement, it would make correcting you easier.
This is one of more global warming neutral links I followed
Sorry if I insulted English wine (its got to be better then French whine any-day).
According to a recent CNN poll of cavemen and cited as proof by the National Academy of Science........
"We know beyond a doubt the Earth is hotter than it was 2000 years ago because we found a thermometer linked to a PC in an Egyptian tomb. We know MicroHard rockware is generally very accurare. This is an amazing find and totally verifys the results of the CNN caveman poll!" said leading scientist Shotsky Smirnoffsky.
I Too can write a verifiable scientific report on globaL WARMING. You read it and can verify the statements to be written as true?
They really can't go after China for greenhouse gases because China is big enough to do whatever it pleases. But China appears to go along with the science because they know it reduces the industrial, economic might of the enemy in America and improves their stature.
As long as the climate makes thong bikinis possible, I won’t complain.
Some people call this the period between Ice Ages (those people used to be called scientists). The whole rise of Man has occurred during this period. We should pray it continues, because when the ice comes back, people die.
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