Posted on 01/27/2007 6:04:04 PM PST by blam
Experts split over climate danger to Antarctica
Scientists challenge 'cautious' UN report
Robin McKie, science editor
Sunday January 28, 2007
The Observer (UK)
Serious disagreement has broken out among scientists over a United Nations climate report's contention that the world's greatest wilderness - Antarctica - will be largely unaffected by rising world temperatures.
The report, to be published on Friday, will be one of the most comprehensive on climate change to date, and will paint a grim picture of future changes to the planet's weather patterns. Details of the report were first revealed by The Observer last weekend.
However, many researchers believe it does not go far enough. In particular, they say it fails to stress that climate change is already having a severe impact on the continent and will continue to do so for the rest of century. At least a quarter of the sea ice around Antarctica will disappear in that time, say the critics, though this forecast is not mentioned in the study. One expert denounced the report - by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC - as 'misleading'. Another accused the panel of 'failing to give the right impression' about the impact that rising levels of carbon dioxide will have on Antarctica.
Antarctica possesses the Earth's greatest mass of ice and acts as an engine that drives the globe's weather systems. Disturbances to Antarctica could have wide repercussions. If all its ice were to melt, sea levels round the world would rise by 70 metres. The fate of that continent crucially affects the fate of the planet, and according to scientists at the British Antarctic Survey it is already being affected by global warming.
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It just doesn't matter. Man is NOT causing it, Man can NOT stop/mitigate/delay/ it. We are just along for the ride.
The climate of today is not the climate of 1000 years ago and will not be the climate of 1000 years from now. Enjoy it, accept.
that is a good one :)
Imagine that - "experts" cannot agree when they are working on junk science and manipulated data....go figure.
All those who claim that mankind is causing global warming are the same folks who believe that the world is billions of years old - and has undergone FAR more dramatic climate change without the existence of mankind on the earth to cause anything. I guess it was the dinosaur poots....
I just have one question. What is the difference between the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and any other room full of Marxist/globalist propagandists?
A tautology.
You dispute that?
That is easy: The UN intergovernmental Panel is afraid of the soon to be mass migration to the warm climate of Antarctica. The Marxist/globalists can not take over Antarctica until the migration takes place.
The reason that I discount the whole global warming hysteria is due to newspapers publishing garbage like this. They hype the worst case scenarios while ignoring that actual measurements of ice and climate in Antarctica that show ice increasing and many temperatures decreasing on the continent. If a theory can't stand on its own weight of evidence then there must be something wrong with the theory. Even the so called scientists who do public demonstrations at my University play the same games with their data.
I discovered the meaning of this word while enjoying some salsa sauce and chai tea in the Sahara desert. Strange....
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Didn't I see that the directors of this UN agency from the Sudan and Kenya were on the take? Did they disappear to work at the local convenience store, instead? sarc/
If CO2 increases from 0.04% of the atmosphere to 0.05% of the atmosphere, the earth will burst into flame, killing all of us. /sarcasm
I guess it hasn't dawned on some of these scientists that the "global climate" isn't static, in spite of all the evidence to the contrary.
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