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Posted on 04/13/2015 2:57:51 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Dear EarthTalk: What is the best way to measure how close we are to the dreaded "point of no return" with climate change? In other words, when do we think we will have gone too far? — David Johnston, via EarthTalk.org
While we may not yet have reached the “point of no return” - when no amount of cutbacks on greenhouse gas emissions will save us from potentially catastrophic global warming - climate scientists warn we may be getting awfully close. Since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution a century ago, the average global temperature has risen some 1.6 degrees Fahrenheit. Another 0.4 degree Fahrenheit rise in temperature could set in motion unprecedented changes in global climate and a significant increase in the severity of natural disasters—and as such could represent the dreaded point of no return.
Environmental leaders point out that this doesn’t give us much time to turn the tide. Greenpeace, a leading environmental advocacy group, says we have until around 2020 to significantly cut back on greenhouse gas output around the world. “Within this time period, we will have to radically change our approach to energy production and consumption.”
“Without additional mitigation, and even with adaptation, warming by the end of the 21st century will lead to high to very high risk of severe, widespread and irreversible impacts globally,” reports the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an international group of leading climate experts convened by the United Nations to review and assess the most recent scientific, technical and socio-economic information on global warming. Indeed, there’s no time like the present to start changing our ways.
(Excerpt) Read more at scientificamerican.com ...
“That mag now has the credibility of NBC, CNN, and TIME.”
I clicked on a YouTube video titled something like “25 crazy things Americans believe.” The first one was that 30% of Americans do not believe in climate change. I can’t tell you what number two was because I was gone before the end of the sentence. I wonder if writers even realize that talking about global warming or any of the other liberal memes is such a turnoff that it means probably 50% of their potential buyers will never even look at their product again. When I read science fiction and the story even mentions global warming I write off that author as life is too short. I even stopped watching Star Trek because they got too whacky into communism. “The economics of the 24th century are different. People work to better themselves not for money.” OH, yeah, sure. (click.)
> “While we ***may*** not yet have reached the “point of no return” - when no amount of cutbacks on greenhouse gas emissions will save us from ***potentially*** catastrophic global warming - climate scientists warn we ***may*** be getting awfully close.”
As a scientist who in my day was raked over the coals of scientific integrity, I am ashamed to see Scientific American publish such rubbish. How this ever came to be is a mystery to me except for the explanation that hard core leftists have infiltrated the ranks of American science to the point where they can now write nonsense in a journal that was once prestigious and greatly esteemed.
Dear David: We will have reached the "point of no return" when our grant money runs out. Best regards, Editor
We have passed the point of know return and now we are dust in the wind.
I regret to inform you the point of no return occurred on 8 June 2013 at 1857 hrs. UDT. At that time, the total volume of greenhouse gases exceeded the known scrubbing capacity of the planet by a factor of 3.27:1. Ironically, this extinction event was triggered by former V.P. Al Gore’s Gulfstream idling on the tarmac at Dulles awaiting the successful conclusion of a run to Starbucks. In the years since, the overwhelming majority (98.6%) of climate scientists have stated categorically that regardless of response, the planetary doomification process is irreversible. It should be noted the science behind this finding is settled and no further inquiries are warranted.
Well played sir!
I’m still waiting on the ozone hole to do something, or not.
LOL!
Beat me to it.
NOPE-
“All evidence entitled to consideration demonstrates
that there has been no change. We put aside the testimony of our feelings and recollections the one depending on a thousand uncertain and varying circumstances and the other proverbially frail.
We have before us memoranda of the weather at Philadelphia
during the winter months from the year 1681 to 1834 and in that period we find little difference in any series we may take From 1681 to 1807, 126 years.
our thermometer is the Delaware river.”
p63 ff
“Gazetteer of the state of New York:
comprehending its colonial history: general geography,
geology, and internal improvements; its political state;
a minute description of its several counties, towns, and villages ...”(Google eBook)
Thomas Francis Gordon
Printed for the author, 1836
https://books.google.com/books?id=wPztAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA61&dq=mounds+in+ny+state&hl=en&sa=X&ei=or0qVbuHHYmfgwSMvoHwBw&ved=0CE0Q6AEwCTgK#v=onepage&q=mounds%20in%20ny%20state&f=false
"could" set in motion?
What a-holes, and no the "a" doesn't stand for "alarmist"
If global warming, um...er....climate change gave me the nice view of the lake I now have, AND it's irreversible.....I'm all for it.......
I hope so... Then we can forget about it, because we can’t do anything to fix it!
we may be getting awfully close.
This is Golly Gee Talk!
THEY REALLY DO “THINK” that “The Average American” is a completely naive knucklehead
We’re dead Jim!
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>> “Since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution a century ago, the average global temperature has risen some 1.6 degrees Fahrenheit.” <<
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You can’t make this stuff up!
They’re willing to tell the world that 1.6 degrees is going to kill us?
Who can even feel less than a 5 degree difference?
And from whence cometh their comical data?
How many satellite data points were they able to salvage from Tom Jefferson’s weather satellites?
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Shut up you idiot bot. Post something useful. Posting this same crap post on every global warming story is ridiculous. We get it. The sun is responsible.
How stupid. Not only does your post contribute nothing worthwhile, it is irritating. Why don’t you continually link Obama and Gore et al’s connection to the now defunct carbon credit exchange? Why dont you link no increase in temperature for 20 years? Why not link UN ipcc admissions that it is a scam to redistibute western wealth? The verifiable links are endless. Instead, you carry on with this “Sun is 1.3 million times the earth ball of fire” pcrap without ever even suggesting it varies in output. If you think your post sounds intelligent you are sorely mistaken. It sounds stupid. It sounds like an extremely stupid person who has cobbled together an insight like “gravity exists! Belive it!”
Your infinitely repeating post is stupid and annoying. Stfu already!
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