Posted on 01/16/2007 8:48:34 AM PST by Graybeard58
When warmists wax on catastrophic climate change, one agency they quote a lot is the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a body comprised mostly of warmists bent on proving their man-made global-warming theory, the facts and their limited understanding of how climate works be damned.
The IPCC's last report in 2001 predicted planetary warming of up to 10 F and a sea-level rise of nearly 3 feet by 2100. Since then, it has been "refining" its numbers, weighing new data and supposedly developing a better understanding of climate science. Its "fourth assessment report," due out in February, will conclude civilization's threat has been overstated, so it will lower its warming projection to 2.7 F to 7.5 F, and adjust its guess on sea-level rise to 17 inches.
Still, the IPCC is worried because carbon-dioxide emissions have risen by 3 percent in the past five years. Relying on past IPCC work, The Earth Institute at Columbia University concluded this year that atmospheric concentrations of CO2, now 0.00038 percent, could reach 0.00055 percent "well before the end of the century, with potentially disastrous implications for human well-being and the Earth's natural systems." At the present rate, it would be more than 9,000 years before CO2 reached 1 percent.
Those numbers are meaningless without context, so here's some: CO2 is abundant on Venus, a hellishly hot planet that warmists say portends earth's fate unless mankind curbs its greenhouse-gas emissions now. But Venus' atmosphere is 97 percent carbon dioxide, giving it 255,000 times more CO2 by volume than earth's and making warmists' fears laughably overheated.
But even if fossil fuels were banned tomorrow, the effect on the climate would be at best immeasurably small. "So whether the climate changes we are observing are reversible is a nonissue," said Steve Milloy of junkscience.com. Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., put the IPCC's revisions in perspective: "Climate science is always going through these 'refinements.' The media (have) alternated between four separate global cooling and warming scares since 1895, (including) the erroneous prediction of a coming ice age in the 1970s." Still, the IPCC and other warmists should be encouraged to keep refining their data until this latest warming scare disappears.
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It's Global Warming all the way up to 14 degrees this morning in Oklahoma.
And allot of that Global Warming is still stuck to the tree limbs and powerlines.
"Warmists".....perfect.
I'm still waiting for them to explain the expanding glaciers.
Where do ice ages come from again? Global warming?
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Waterbury Warmists Warming Warnings Waning.
I had to shovel about three inches of global warming out of my driveway this morning.
Al Gore must be spinning in his grave.
In San Antonio today, it's 30 with freezing rain, snowing in Houston and Kerrville, and nobody - I mean nobody - is talking about global warming.
Liberal global warming gameplan: if any evidence contradicts our viewpoint, immediately move goalposts.
Go for a drive. Your vehicle emissions should be enough to raise the temp into the mid-60's by this afternoon (unless you drive an SUV, which would push the thermometer well above 100 degrees within hours).
Accuracy means little to weak-minded Americans who subscribe to the rantings of Al "the boob" Gore.
It's the UN and an NGO. The UN itself is an NGO. That it contains the word 'governmental' in its name doesn't make it any part of government. It is an instutition of some kind: an NGO.
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