Report has 'smoking gun' on climate (IPCC's 'Mother of All Reports', look for an "iconic statement")

AP on Yahoo ^ | 1/22/07 | Seth Borenstein - ap

[NormsRevenge]

"iconic statement" = a simple but strong and unequivocal summary — on how global warming is now occurring

No one argues that it is happening, the disagreement is over what is causing it and what ought or ought not be done in the mean time..

[NormsRevenge]

On the Net:

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: http://www.ipcc.ch/

[bnelson44]

a Canadian climate scientist and study co-author

[bnelson44]

written by more than 600 scientists and reviewed by another 600 experts and edited by bureaucrats from 154 countries,

Reviewed not by a scientific pear review but by "experts"
Edited by bureaucrats from 154 countries...

Kinda makes one want to use it as kindling.

[Gondring]

Richard Alley of Penn State University

A very reasonable and bright geoscientist...not "off the deep end"...

[garjog]

"600 scientists"

Each with an obscure degree that suddenly holds the promise of a $70,000 government grant to confirm the "human caused" scourge.

"Ah, yeah, sure, humans probably contribute to, ah, global warming. You betcha. Now where do I sign the grant application?"

[NonValueAdded]

Iran will provide the solution soon enough.

[uglybiker]

Inbred Pool of Crazy Communists

Anybody else got one?

[gcruse]

"No one argues that it is happening..."

You only have to read a typical FR climate thread to be disavowed of that notion.

[EagleUSA]

Would someone please put some duct tape on Chicken Little's mouth. Then read him a geo-sciences grammar school book about the earth's temperature cycling which has been going on for over 100 million years (way more actually)....

This is getting very old -- and now GW is going to be preaching to this tune tomorrow night....God help us.

[Frwy]

I'm no one, do I count. I vote NO.

[LdSentinal]

No one argues that it is happening

I do.

[NormsRevenge]

Good point. :-)

[pissant]

Unworthy to be used for ass-wipe in a diarrhea clinic.

[DennisR]

"The future is bleak, scientists said."

Well, they are scientists, so they have to be right...right? We are doomed. Might as well quit work and start eating dessert.

[rawcatslyentist]

>"Iran will provide the solution soon enough."

Couple of billion vaporized instantly should shut up the overpopulation jeniuses.

[DennisR]

Reviewed not by a scientific pear review but by "experts"

What is a "pear review"? :)

[clintonh8r]

"iconic"

From clintonh8r's dictionary: (adj.) One of the most over-used words in the English language.

[Shermy]

""Andrew Weaver, a Canadian climate scientist and study co-author, went even further: "This isn't a smoking gun; climate is a batallion of intergalactic smoking missiles.""

Give that man 10,000 carbon credits for his efforts!

[facedown]

The world's global average temperature has risen about 1.2 degrees Fahrenheit from 1901 to 2005.

Most of it before the 1950's.