Posted on 07/21/2005 8:10:52 PM PDT by Crackingham
Global warming is caused primarily by humans and "nearly all climate scientists today" agree with that viewpoint, the new head of the National Academy of Sciences -- a climate scientist himself -- said Wednesday.
Ralph Cicerone's views contrasted with Bush administration officials' emphasis on uncertainty about how much carbon dioxide and other industrial gases warm the atmosphere like a greenhouse.
"Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is now at its highest level in 400,000 years and it continues to rise," said Cicerone, an atmospheric scientist who left as chancellor of University of California-Irvine to become academy president this month. "Nearly all climate scientists today believe that much of Earth's current warming has been caused by increases in the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, mostly from the burning of fuels."
Cicerone, testifying before a Senate Commerce subcommittee on global climate change, cited data from weather stations and ships indicating the surface of the Earth is generally hotter by about seven-tenths of 1 degree Fahrenheit just since the early 1970s.
The administration officials stressed the $5 billion spent yearly on U.S. climate programs, mostly research. David Conover, a principal deputy assistant energy secretary, said President Bush would lead on the issue though "the scientific and technology challenges are considerable."
James Mahoney, assistant commerce secretary for oceans and atmosphere, said, "We know that the surface of the Earth is warmer, and that an increase in greenhouse gases caused by humans is contributing to the problem." But he did not go further than that.
"We see economic growth, addressing the climate change problem and energy security as integrally related," said Daniel Reifsnyder, director of the State Department's Office of Global Change.
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This just really burns me up.
Then he and his fellow thinkers should do the world a favor and stop exhaling CO2.
Bunk.
And while we're at it, CNN is mostly bunk too ...
Mars is up 10 degrees, so how did some humans or President Bush cause that?
CNN Now reporting humans cause earthquakes. An indictment is expected from the Hauge in a few hours.
Wow. I didn't know they were measuring it 400,000 years ago.
This just really burns me up.
Watch out. Those temper tantrums will surely cause the temperature of the Earth to rise.
I'll be right back...I gotta go throw another styrofoam plate on the grill.
Earth to Scientists: Global warming caused by the sun.
I never realized you could objectively prove something merely by citing common agreement.
I guess that means aliens are real, since most people believe in them.
MSM never tells the real cause of all environmental problems - overpopulation - because a world of paved urban decay is exactly what the Left needs to thrive.
They were...that's when the humans caused global warming the first time and then made the species extinct because of it.
I think there was a version of haliburton around then, too.
Hey, no one said it was easy!
These same idiots stopped "Global Cooling" in the '70s. If they hadn't fixed global cooling then, it would be canceling out this Global Warming now! Global Warming is caused by "climate scientists"!
The earth's populatin is the highest it's been in 400,000 years too. Reckon there's a connection?
Don't you know, if we keep warming up the planet, that heat has to go somewhere, mars is next. Which leads to the next logical conclusion, evil humans are the cause of global warming on mars. We are so powerful, we can alter the universe's atmosphere.
Maybe if we get a majority of people to believe that Hillary does not exist...
After all, it's not every day that you discover that the BILLIONS of animals on the planet don't exhale carbon dioxide, nor do they pass methane.....it's just us nasty humans that are responsible.
So why did the glaciers melt?
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