Posted on 08/09/2015 10:19:55 AM PDT by PROCON
In 2009, global leaders agreed to try not to let the world warm more than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial times. This is sometimes seen as a rule of thumb for keeping on the right side of climate change, within “safe” territory.
But that’s not at all how scientists meant it, Professor Camille Parmesan, an expert in biodiversity at the University of Plymouth in the United Kingdom said. Climate risks don’t begin at 2C, she said; it’s more like where they go from high to intolerably high.The planet has already warmed by about 0.8C (1.7 Fahrenheit) since the late-19th century.
Some of the world’s most iconic places are also the most vulnerable, and they are already feeling the effects.
“We’re already seeing contraction of species in the most sensitive ecosystems, such as those dependent on sea ice or those living on mountain tops,” she said. “We’re also seeing declines in some tropical systems, such as coral reefs, and the valuable services they provide for fish nurseries, tourism and protection from coastal flooding.”
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This warmist movement has evolved into a world-class religious cult.
Notice all the charts are published by gubment or gubment sponsored institutes, so it must be true.
Talk about false premises.
But, but for the last 17 years the water has actually gotten cooler so we frogs are now backstroking.
Reuters, please PLEASE get someone on your staff who got higher than a D in high school science.
We’ll not even mention something like Physics, Calculus, Principle Component Analysis, lesser statistical analysis, error bars, etc....all of which you do NOT understand.
Go back to journalism...the trade of those who have never and will never produce anything of value.
It’s working. It’s only 66 degrees here in the Chicago area in August.
“It’s working. It’s only 66 degrees here in the Chicago area in August.”
As cool and wet as this summer has been, I’ve got the feeling we are in for a ROUGH winter.
I’d like them to explain how they can come to .01 of a degree temp rise when thermometers didn’t measure thousandths of degrees during much of the time frame claimed.
I’d like them to explain how they can come to .01 of a degree temp rise when thermometers didn’t measure thousandths of degrees during much of the time frame claimed.
http://www.physics.uoguelph.ca/tutorials/sig_fig/SIG_dig.htm
“Climate scientist”: “Um..we’re studying that anomaly...we’ll get back to you.
That human efforts can alter the forces of the sun, oceans, winds and natural forces like volcanoes is utter folly. Obama is no different than King Knute demanding the tides to stop.
The globe warms and cools. It happens every day. That’s weather. We’re having weird weather. News for all the unaborted Dem embryos out there, you should trust the old geezers on this one:
Weather has ALWAYS been weird. Eureka, mfers :O
Weather weird measured CONSISTENTLY OVER TIME is climate. The numbers you need escape you, so you coerce belief. In fact, the government pays $4 billion dollars a day so scientific experts, talking heads and birdcage liner technicians can continue to coerce belief. 28,000 polar bears say BS. The heat sinks in the ocean yet the ice grows at the poles must be the final test of witless faith in this mind surrender to liberal daddy Obama religion. How long does a global warming scientist study to tell you with a straight face that when you heat water you make ice. (Then tell people “but it’s THIN ice. And then get stranded joyriding by mountains of “thin ice”.)
And now they plan to replace the black messianic mincing male failure with the new White Gaia Earth Mother Hillary Clinton with thunder in her thighs and and eternal greedy hungervin her cavernous barking maw, won’t the ecofreaks, feminists, KKK, and lesbian truckers cream their jeans. And at the sound of her croak every knee will bend and mouth will chant “Yes She Can”. Then $4 billion a day sacrificed to the sun won’t be nearly enough. Behold a prophecy: her Foundation Green with cash will become Eco Green. If she can milk that cow her tentacles will be everywhere. Further prophecy: After two months everything will be blamed on Obama. It will be “Obamaaa!” instead of “Booosh!”
We need a leader who can pull the sword from the stone. And ram it up her *static*.
A government that taxes you, takes $4 billion daily to make you believe something in which there is no evidence, and to have faith in policies in which no rational person would have faith, particularly as they fail, this religion further requires you to call failure success, qualifies Webster’s definition of a state sponsored cult.
At least y’all quit dragging folks to the tops of pyramids and tearing their hearts out. Yes, that was a global warming cult too. God sent them drought and Spaniards to teach them they were idiots. OK, done ranting now TYVM ;)
I vaguely recall, yes.
Lol, pretty much.
And their .01° C can disappear due to variances in the error threshold of the measuring equipment.
Al Gore make a forecast about Arctic sea ice that had no chance of ever being right.
The water may freeze solid again before it ever boils.
FLOODS, HOT WEATHER, RECORD RAINFALL, TORNADOES...........AGH, we're all going to die!!!
What a pitiful attempt at propaganda and manipulation.
They have to, it is a multi-billion dollar industry and people are emotionally invested in it.
There is a reason that Greenland was named Greenland....it was GREEN....now it has a lot of ice and snow on it....God knows what He is doing and for mankind to think that their puny efforts can somehow alter climate is arrogant at best.
I visit he house that I lived in as a child (I'm76) it is on a lake and most of the pilings are still there. The water level is where it has always been......the rings on the poles don't lie.
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