Global Warming...New Report...and it ain't happy news

http://co2.cms.udel.edu/Increasing_Atmospheric_CO2.htm
Using a combination of modern and historic data, scientists estimate that humans have sent a total of 305 billion metric tons of carbon into the atmosphere since 1751; half of these emissions have occurred since the mid-1970s (Figure 3).

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Figure 3: Annual emissions of carbon to the atmosphere from 1751 to 2003 due to anthropogenic (human-caused) sources, primarily from fossil-fuel burning. Plotted using data from CDIAC website (see References section for information).
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Today, atmospheric CO2 levels are 25% greater than at any time in the past 420,000 years. Human activities, primarily the burning of fossil fuels, but also including land-use activities, are responsible for the increase.

There has been considerable research and analysis of increased atmospheric CO2 and global warming; see section on “Climate Change”. About half of the recent emissions are not accumulating in the atmosphere, but are going into the ocean and, to a lesser extent, into soils. These are considered “sinks” in the global carbon budget because they take up atmospheric CO2. The chemistry of the ocean changes as a result of increased CO2 concentrations; this subject is further examined in the section on “Ocean Acidification”.

Many things "appear to imply" these days ican. One should beware of them. They can give your head a right ******* over.

True! So one should be careful not to infer absolute conclusions from incomplete data.

The only thing I bet I know for certain is that I don't know anything else for certain.

I am a probablist: One who believes certainty is probably impossible and that probability suffices to govern belief and action.

So if you don't use the word "absolute" in your statements then you are being a "probablist"

Since I and almost everyone else here have never used the word "absolute" in any posts, that means your accusation is without merit. Or do your standards only apply to you?

Scientists have found the first unequivocal evidence that the Arctic region is warming at a faster rate than the rest of the world at least a decade before it was predicted to happen.

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This year will be the coolest since 1997 but still the tenth hottest in a temperature record dating back 150 years, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Tuesday.

The global mean temperature for 2008 was 14.3 degrees Celsius (57.7 degrees Fahrenheit), climate scientists at the UK's Met Office Hadley Center and Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, who compiled data for the WMO, said.

We are in the midst of a phase of dramatic change in the Arctic," said Ursula Schauer, the chief scientist at the Alfred Wegener Institute, who was on board the Polar Stern expedition. "The ice cover of the North Polar Sea is dwindling, the ocean and the atmosphere are becoming steadily warmer, the ocean currents are changing," she said.

One scientist came back from the North Pole and reported that it was raining there, said David Carlson, the director of International Polar Year, the effort to highlight the climate issues of the Arctic and Antarctic. "It makes you wonder whether anyone has ever reported rain at the North Pole before."

Another team of scientists monitoring the movements of Ayles Ice Island off northern Canada reported that it had broken in two far earlier than expected, a further indication of warmer temperatures. And this summer, for the first time, an American sailing boat managed to traverse the North-west Passage from Nova Scotia to Alaska, a voyage usually made by icebreakers. Never before has a sail-powered vessel managed to get straight through the usually ice-blocked sea passage.

Inhabitants of the region are also noticing a significant change as a result of warmer summers, according to Shari Gearheard, a research scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Centre. "People who live in the region are noticing changes in sea ice. The earlier break-up and later freeze-up affect when and where people can go hunting, as well as safety for travel," she said.

Mark Serreze of the National Snow and Ice Data Centre, said: "We may see an ice-free Arctic Ocean in summer within our lifetimes. The implications... are disturbing."

The Arctic region is cooling and the ice packs are growing.