Yea, but Ok. Sen Enhofe, Professor of Climate Science and Fossil Fuel Cowboy Studies @ the Univ of YE-HAW!, states....."global warming is a lie invented by liberals to scare people". I don't believe that such a distinquished voice of the Grand Oil Party would EVER try to decieve the public,........ do you????
Yep. Global average temps are expected to increase another 1-2 degrees over this century even if we take action now. If we don't, and continue to conduct our business as usual, those estimates rise to 5-7 degrees, at which point James Hansen at NASA says that we will have a very different planet. In other words, we are now in damage control - and future generations will live with the consequences of our decisions for centuries to come (that is, if they live at all).
I wonder "if" and "when" our President(I use that term with a rock in my stomach), wake up and make the country wake up as well. Great article, please post more.
Not your intellect, TJ. Your education. Did you know that small a change is already dramatically affecting migration patterns, lifeways and extinction rates? Further, last time this happened (before humans were about) it triggered massive releases of sinked CO2 that created very rapid climatic change. The consequences of that, if it happens, not even the people where you live will be able to ignore.
TJ Thompson: "...+.002 degree Fahrenheit change in temperature annually. [I don't know the actual figure, but I know it is low and practically irrelevant."
How do you determine it is irrelevant if you don't know the facts? - which you don't. And even if you did know the right figures, how do you determine it is irrelevant? This may help:
NASA scientist James Hansen...said governments must adopt an alternative scenario to keep carbon dioxide emission growth in check and limit the increase in global temperatures to 1 degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit).
If the world continues with a "business as usual" scenario, Hansen said temperatures will rise by 2 to 3 degrees Celsius (3.6 to 7.2 degrees F) and "we will be producing a different planet."
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Yep. Global average temps are expected to increase another 1-2 degrees over this century even if we take action now. If we don't, and continue to conduct our business as usual, those estimates rise to 5-7 degrees, at which point James Hansen at NASA says that we will have a very different planet. In other words, we are now in damage control - and future generations will live with the consequences of our decisions for centuries to come (that is, if they live at all).
How do you determine it is irrelevant if you don't know the facts? - which you don't. And even if you did know the right figures, how do you determine it is irrelevant? This may help:
NASA scientist James Hansen...said governments must adopt an alternative scenario to keep carbon dioxide emission growth in check and limit the increase in global temperatures to 1 degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit).
If the world continues with a "business as usual" scenario, Hansen said temperatures will rise by 2 to 3 degrees Celsius (3.6 to 7.2 degrees F) and "we will be producing a different planet."
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyID=2006-09-14T010401Z_01_N13174508_RTRUKOC_0_US-ENVIRONMENT-CLIMATE.xml
"Now I await attacks to my intelligence from liberals who've never met me yet claim to know my exact personality/beliefs/IQ.]"
No comment.
The average temp has risen over 1 degree Celsius in the last ten years.
http://www.earth-policy.org/Indicators/Temp/2006Temp_data.htm#table1