Posted on 03/24/2016 10:12:33 AM PDT by PROCON
A sobering new report on the impact of climate change finds that extreme weather like killer storms and high-rising seas could be mere decades, not centuries, away.
The report, "Ice Melt, Sea Level Rise, and Superstorms," published Tuesday in the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, says that the 2-degree Celsius (or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) global warming threshold previously agreed upon by global leaders and scientists is too high. The research in the 52-page report is derived from observations of ancient climate change -- "paleo-climatology" -- as well as observations of current climate shifts, and data from computer modeling to forecast where the planet is headed.
"So, the question arises again: Have we passed the point of no return?" asked lead author James Hensen, a former NASA climate scientist, in a video message that accompanied the study release.
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Model fail
Hell, I’ve been waiting for forty years for the cataclysm to begin; let’s get started already!
“extreme weather like killer storms and high-rising seas could be mere decades.”
What happened to the “Al Gore storms” of the nineties?
Nothing predicted in this article will actually happen.
“A sobering new report on the impact of climate change....”
Wondering how there can be a “sobering new report” when everything these “experts” say indicates they are drunk on delusions of grandeur.
The only problem with the report is that extreme weather events have been down for over a decade both here and abroad.
Awwww! Not this crap again!!
yep Weather and Tide
According to Al Gore if you live on the coast you should be under twenty feet of water by now!!!
cool......
This report is crap. All this stuff happened already.
So, it’s going to be relatively calm, then.
His name is James Hansen, not Hensen.
In related but unreported news, it has now been 3804 days (10.41 years) since the last major (Category 3, 4 or 5) hurricane has made landfall in the United States. This obliterates the old record of 2231 days (6.11 years) set in 1906.
However, since Global Warming predicts an increase in both frequency and force of hurricanes, this record-shattering calm spell is just another proof of Global Warming.
The best days of Science are definitely behind us.
Go look at the NOAA tide charts. Rates of ocean rise have not changed since the information was firs being kept, more than a century ago for most locations. The increase is something like 6 inches per century.
Still waiting for the seas to rise and the reincarnation of Noah and his Ark.
That’s what they’ve been saying since the day I bought my land along the NC coast 7 years ago. And they’ll still be saying that in 7 years when I start building my retirement home there!
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