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

[petertare]

Would NOAA. a government agency that relies on annual federal funding be prone to issue an everything is all OK report, or would it likely be biased to claim the atmospheric sky is falling report--and something better be done soon (by NOAA) report?

Hmmmm.

[Rembrandt]

"No one with any CLUE is arguing. I have seen glaciers fading away, year by year. A lot of us have. The evidence is unarguable except by fools who love the sound of their own voice arguing."

Many people who do have a CLUE are arguing. The majority of them are prestigious researchers and Professors who say the ninnies espousing these theories are just that: ninnies.

[SierraWasp]

"A number of self-described scientists are collaborating with the world's most creative fiction writers and conmen...."

As Rush is fond of saying... "It looks as if you have actually swerved right into the truth with that thought!!!"

Those "conmen" are also public policy advisers and CONsultants to Governor Schwartzenfibber!!! (who is having an undue effect on the POTUS unfortunately)

Could we get Laura's or even Barbara Bush's phone records under the FOIA? I'd like to see if Maria Shriver Schwartzenegger's phone number shows up anywhere and with what frequency!!! (I mean, we could have a First Lady Troica goin on here)

[SierraWasp]

"Richard Alley of Penn State University"

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

"The future is bleak, scientists said."

He is NOW!!!

[Brad from Tennessee]

Jerry Mahlman is the inventor of the much maligned "hockey stick" temperature graph which ignores the Medieval Warming Period and other climatic events which interfere with his cockamamie theories.

[ARepublicanForAllReasons]

My reply to all this nonsense is that

as long as we keep having weather, we will keep having predictions of imminent catastrophe!

[elmer fudd]

I think global warming will be a good thing myself. There will be more arable land and despite rising sea levels there will be more coastal areas that you'd want to either live in or visit.

[lepton]

The report will draw on already published peer-review science.

Unfortunately, we've learned that "peer review" doesn't mean checking the math.

[kcvl]

Seth Borenstein covers environment, science, health, aviation, government contracting and other technical-oriented issues. He specializes in explaining what technical issues mean to the average person.

[calcowgirl]

It's Pure Calculated Communism.

[lepton]

He said he was told our actions are causing the worlds ice to melt. No maybe, no possibly, are.

There's been a modern melt-off going on since the mid 1700s, per the IPCC's charts.

[calcowgirl]

Great story!!!

[lepton]

Many people who do have a CLUE are arguing. The majority of them are prestigious researchers and Professors who say the ninnies espousing these theories are just that: ninnies.

There has been a pronounced warming from 1995 through 2005. That is pretty clear. Some of those years in between have been much more average. Where the debate lies is in exactly how much the warming is, and what the cause is. That 1995 and 2003 were exceptionally hot globally isn't being debated by anyone who has paid attention.

[lepton]

Jerry Mahlman is the inventor of the much maligned "hockey stick" temperature graph which ignores the Medieval Warming Period and other climatic events which interfere with his cockamamie theories.

Ummm. Michael Mann.

[ApplegateRanch]

There will be more arable land and despite rising sea levels there will be more coastal areas that you'd want to either live in or visit.

I figure the fishing should be pretty good over the Outer Manhattan Banks....

What I dread is all the coastal refugees fleeing to my neck of the woods. We don't need Libs moving here.

[ClaireSolt]

Don't worry. I live a mile from the beach and never hear or see any evidence of rising sea levels.

[ClaireSolt]

Don't worry. I live a mile from the beach and never hear or see any evidence of rising sea levels.

[MPJackal]

"Well, they are scientists, so they have to be right...right?"

Of course. Just like they were right when they said:
The sun revolves around the earth.
The earth is flat.
Global cooling.
And on, and on, and on.

[calex59]

What is a "pear review"? :)

Review held in a pear orchard?

[hinckley buzzard]

the 12-page summary for policymakers will be edited in secret word-by-word by governments officials for several days next week and released to the public on Feb. 2

Not scientists..."government officials".

She is letting out the big secret--The IPCC is mostly a collection of bureaucrats and grantseeking whores, not reputable scientists at all. Why "edited in secret?" because they don't want inconvenient truths leaking out, such as the exposure that data and conclusions in the original "epoch-making" IPCC report were cooked in the dark of night before it was released.