Global Warming - Need MORE Proof?
September 27th, 2006 | by Jersey McJones |From Scientists and Their Peers, as in the proceedings of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
Global surface temperature has increased 0.2°C per decade in the past 30 years, similar to the warming rate predicted in the 1980s in initial global climate model simulations with transient greenhouse gas changes. Warming is larger in the Western Equatorial Pacific than in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific over the past century, and we suggest that the increased West–East temperature gradient may have increased the likelihood of strong El Niños, such as those of 1983 and 1998. Comparison of measured sea surface temperatures in the Western Pacific with paleoclimate data suggests that this critical ocean region, and probably the planet as a whole, is approximately as warm now as at the Holocene maximum and within 1°C of the maximum temperature of the past million years. We conclude that global warming of more than 1°C, relative to 2000, will constitute “dangerous” climate change as judged from likely effects on sea level and extermination of species.
to Capitalists and Beer Enthusiasts, as here, among the brewers of Greenland…
But brewers in Greenland seem to be going with the flow, having found a new use for one of their homeland’s fastest growing—but least celebrated—natural resources: melted Arctic ice.
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“Today, with all the pollution … you cannot get cleaner water than melted ice-cap water,” Greenland Brewhouse co-founder Salik Hard told the AP.
to Libertarian Skeptic Michael Shermer all the way to Evangelical Preachers…
Nevertheless, data trump politics, and a convergence of evidence from numerous sources has led me to make a cognitive switch on the subject of anthropogenic global warming. My attention was piqued on February 8 when 86 leading evangelical Christians–the last cohort I expected to get on the environmental bandwagon–issued the Evangelical Climate Initiative calling for “national legislation requiring sufficient economy-wide reductions” in carbon emissions.
the concensus is in - we are changing the world and it’s getting near the point of no return.
Now, granted, if you think the Rapture is around the corner, perhaps you just don’t care, but of course, the evidence for the Rapture is just a wee bit sketchier and less universally accepted.
If the Righties don’t care, then fine, let them drink their ice cap Beer, but please, VOTE THEM THE HELL OUT OF OFFICE!
JMJ