Makes as much sense as the "science" supporting these idiots...
Posted on 01/31/2007 10:53:13 AM PST by A. Pole
Humans have already left such a deep footprint on the environment that the effects of global warming will last for the next 1,000 years, according to a draft copy of a new report.
The Globe and Mail obtained an early version of the climate change study being prepared by the world's leading scientists, and reported that little doubt remains that the planet is getting hotter.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will release the report on Friday at a news conference in Paris, while a simultaneous conference will be held in Ottawa.
The report says heat waves, droughts and rain storms, as well as violent typhoons and hurricanes, will become more frequent.
The report paints a startling picture of the effects of climate change and says evidence of the phenomenon is now "unequivocal."
It says human influence on the atmosphere during the 21st century alone will propel global warming for another 1,000 years, based on estimates of how long it will take nature to clean the air of gases that contribute to climate change.
Among the other findings, the report states that the last half-century was probably the hottest in at least the past 1,300 years. And in 11 of the past 12 years, temperatures were among the highest since the 1850s, when accurate temperature measurements were first set down.
"Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, melting of snow and ice, and rising sea level," says the draft. The document is being reviewed in Paris.
It is the fourth report to be issued by the group of 2,000 global experts organized by the UN, including many from Canada.
The first report was issued in 1990. Since then, the panel's stance on global warming -- and the notion that it is being brought on in large part by deforestation, large scale agriculture and burning of fossil fuels -- has become more established.
The IPPC's first report suggested global warming might be under way. In 1995, the second report said it was likely that global warming was happening. In 2001, the third report suggested scientists were pretty sure human behaviour was impacting the climate.
But the tone of the newest report suggests there's nothing left to argue and climate change is now a stark reality.
Evidence of the phenomenon is being seen almost everywhere on the planet, from mountain tops, where glaciers are shrinking, to the bottom of the oceans, where average water temperatures are increasing as far as 3,000 metres below the surface.
The strong tone of the IPCC report should eliminate any lingering doubts that global warming is really happening, say some environmentalists who are calling on politicians to take more drastic action to limit greenhouse gas emissions.
"There is no more reason to delay," John Bennett, spokesman for the Climate Action Network Canada told The Globe. "We need the policies, regulations, and programs to reduce emissions and we need to do it with the same kind of urgency that we would use to fight a war."
The draft predicts the following developments will occur as the ongoing results of global warming:
Makes as much sense as the "science" supporting these idiots...
1000 years? well, there goes my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grand kids future.......
Communist really pushing the global warming -
About 6,000 years ago, for example, during a period known as the "Holocene Maximum," global temperatures were about 2 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than today. Rainfall patterns also were different. For example, in what is now the arid core of the Sahara desert, hippopotamuses and crocodiles thrived in lakes and swamps. Moister conditions in Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley aided the development of agriculture and humanity's first great civilizations in these regions.
Then global cooling dropped the temperatures to a little cooler than they are now, and living things shifted again. Earth didn't warm appreciably until about 2,000 years ago.
Actually, going by interglacial temp trends, that's about when we oughta drop off into the next ice age anyway. This has ZERO to do with anthropogenic global warming.
"Greenhouse gas" is 95% water vapor! What are these idiots talking about?! Like Will Ferrell in "Zoolander", I feel like I'm taking crazy pills here.
Well .... I was planning on going to Key West Florida in Aug and I told my hubby that the big bad Hurricanes would get us..........................
H.L. Mencken is batting a thousand on this one...
During the present millennium there was a period of relatively mild climate called the Medieval Warm Period, lasting from about 1000 to 1300 AD. As with the Little Ice Age, its timing and effects varied from region to region, and many experts doubt that the Medieval Warm Period was a truly global phenomenon. In East Asia, for example, temperatures were cooler.
Europe, though, enjoyed an undeniably balmy climate during the early medieval period. Agriculture flourished farther north and at higher elevations on mountains than is possible even in today's warmish climate, and harvests generally were good.
Farmers raised wine grapes in England 300 miles north of present limits, and in what now are icebound parts of Greenland, Norse settlers grazed sheep and dairy cattle. In his book Climate History and Modern Man, H.H. Lamb noted that the great burst of cathedral-building and population expansion in medieval Europe coincided with the peak of the Medieval Warm Period.
By about 1400, the climate had cooled to temperatures comparable to today. Over the next century or two, the world would cool still further, bringing on the Little Ice Age.
Wait, I'm a leading Scientist and I swear, for the record, I am not writing this report nor do I agree with it. Must be the other group of leading Scientist.
I was just looking for this quote!
The thing I don't get, is that why wasn't global warming so much more pronounced in the early Industrial Age, when pollutants were so much worse than they are now?
From all these data sources, climate researchers have assembled a broad picture of a world that was, on average, one to two degrees cooler than it is today. For comparison, during the Pleistocene, when the ice cap in eastern North America reached as far south as Pennsylvania, the world was about nine degrees cooler.
"the effects of global warming will last for the next 1,000 years"
I predict that no one alive today will see what comes next because a solid shower of meteorites at least 2' deep will do everything in next month. Try shoveling that off your driveway.
Remember folks...
Global Warming is POLITICAL SCIENCE, not real science...
There will be fewer hurricanes, but the ones that do develop will be more powerful
But in his movie, Al Gore says there will be MORE hurricanes. But of course these charlatans can change their rigged predictions as many times as they want - the media will always cover for them.
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