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

Those ice ice sheets have been melting for 17,950 years before SUVs rolled off the assembly lines, no matter what Advocate claims.

The polluters and other miscreants have no concern that they are driving us to the brink of extinction.

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091019_a_reality_check_from_the_brink_of_extinction/

The Danish Royal Air Force overflies the North Pole regularly, and check the ice thickness with radar; they say polar ice is disappearing much faster than previously predicted and within a few years there will be an ice-free pole in summer. Climate models predicted global warming would show up first and more strongly in the Arctic Circle. It is exceeding those simulations. As we keep telling you.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/33397126#33397126

The facts on the ground and on the water indicate global warming is happening.

Your reality is not mine. And my preferences don't match yours. Sorry, but I think you and your ilk are traitors to the earth.

Ice cores in the Greenland icecap go back about four ice ages.

It's likely to be gone by the turn of the century.

the climate of the arctic has been relatively stable for most of the peiod since the last ice age.

The melting is unprecedented.

And explicable as a result of anthropogenic effect on the climate.

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It's likely to be gone by the turn of the century.

Big deal. So what ? We now have a culture where all you have to do is say something is changing and people will rush out and try to save it. This is driven by people afraid of their own mortality.

I believe extreme environmentalism is a form of religi0n,...

A nightmare in the not-very-distant future: the map below shows the enormous temperature rises which British scientists believe the planet may be experiencing in as a little as 50 years from now if global warming remains unchecked.

Released by the Government today, it illustrates a rise in global average temperature of four degrees Centigrade by 2060, and as such represents a dramatic acceleration of previous forecasts made as recently as 2007 by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

The point of the map, launched by the Foreign Secretary David Miliband and the Energy and Climate Change Secretary, his brother Ed, is to show that a four-degree average temperature rise over the whole globe (which takes into account the seas as well as the land surface) equates to very much greater rises over the land alone, especially at higher latitudes " as one goes north or south towards the poles. The darker the colour, the higher the heat increase.

The impacts of climate change will be widespread across the globe. In order to understand more about what the human impact of high-end climate change might be, and therefore what would happen if a successful agreement can not be reached at Copenhagen, the UK's Met Office Hadley Centre has produced a map outlining some of the impacts that may occur if the global average temperature rises by 4 °C (7 °F) above the pre-industrial climate average. The map represents the latest peer-reviewed science on the impacts.

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It is 90 % certain that global warming is man-made.


It is NOT 90% certain, SOME believe it is 90% PROBABLE. It damages your argument if you use emotions to colour facts. It makes you seem afraid of the facts. Or worse, incapable of understanding the argument.


The statement is based on credible scientific findings of fact, not the right-wing contrarian nonsense that pervades this bulletin board.

I would be embarrassed to have your limited understanding. I will explain it again, please read carefully this time...

If something is certain, it cant have any percentage chance of being apart from 100%. If it is 90% possible then it is not certain. Not everyone believes your figure of 90%.

As I said before, and read carefully because I am sick of repeating and explaining to people who have been educated beyond their intelligence, SOME believe it is 90% PROBABLE. That is the only statement you can make that is accurate, unless of course you dont mind inaccurate statements in the service of science. If you wish to have God-like powers and state certainties find a forum where there are more stupid people to convince. 60% of people know that.

Please spare us your literal nonsense. Only children and and those mentally defective take everything literally. Intelligent people discuss issues in a figurative manner to ease conversation. They don't parse every word that comes up.

nightmare...enormous...dramatic...

Thank you, High Seas. ... It has NOT been a process of gradual warming throughout this interglacial The melting is unprecedented. ...