NASA: Danger Point Closer Than Thought From Warming

ABC NEWS ^ | 29 May,2007 | BILL BLAKEMORE

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'Disastrous Effects' of Global Warming Tipping Points Near, According to New Study

Even "moderate additional" greenhouse emissions are likely to push Earth past "critical tipping points" with "dangerous consequences for the planet," according to research conducted by NASA and the Columbia University Earth Institute.

With just 10 more years of "business as usual" emissions from the burning of coal, oil and gas, says the NASA/Columbia paper, "it becomes impractical" to avoid "disastrous effects."

The forecast effects include "increasingly rapid sea-level rise, increased frequency of droughts and floods, and increased stress on wildlife and plants due to rapidly shifting climate zones," according to the NASA announcement.

Recent Climate Reports Underestimated How Soon

By heralding the new research paper, NASA is endorsing science that places considerably more urgency on the need to reduce emissions to avoid "disastrous effects" of global warming than was evident in the recent reports from the world's scientists coordinated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

The new NASA release emphasizes the danger of "strong amplifying feedbacks" pushing Earth past "dangerous tipping points."

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'Potentially Uncontrollable' Feedback Loops

As the tipping points pass, "there is an acceleration, potentially uncontrollable, of emissions of vast natural stores of greenhouse gas," according to Hansen, who reviewed the study for ABC News today.

OCNTSA- Another "We'll ALL DIE unless we Elect a Democrat" Article...

Expect to MANY, MANY more of these, the closer we get to the 2008 election.

[expatguy]

We can start by killing all the sheep in New Zealand.

[kidd]

Expect to MANY, MANY more of these, the closer we get to the 2008 election.

And as we get closer to the sunspot maximum.

[neverhillorat]

Wonder what NASA will recommend that all the space shots be stopped as they emit massive amounts of pollution?

[Jake The Goose]

Sounds like NASA is after a nice funding bill from the dems in Congress.

I trust freaking NASA as far as I can throw em....

[b4its2late]

NASA must think it’ll give them a better space program or something.....

[polymuser]

A little backround history (1940’s era) of Columbia University is always enlightening when reading things like this.

[tgusa]

Beat me to it. Burning all that kerosene .....

[xcamel]

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Geologic history repeats itself, as this has happened may times in the "real" past, not the "limited" past as known by the so-called scientists.

[Badeye]

NASA just fell into the same catagory I have the CDC.

A purveyor of junk science for political partisan gain.

[ladtx]

[marktwain]

So, this is *Hansen*. That makes it not credible to me, right from the start.

[dirtboy]

This from the guys who lost a Mars probe because they mixed up metric and English measurements.

They should spend less time doing computer modeling and more time observing other planets in the solar system that have been warming up as well.

[true_blue_texican]

This, from the people who can’t go back to the moon.

[hophead]

Just one question NASA. How the hell has the EARTH been around for so frickin long if “climate change” is so bad? If you all were around when the ice caps in Pennsylvania were receding, what would you have done? How about when the ocean was shrinking from where Wyoming is now? This planet HAS and WILL change long after we are gone. There is not a damn thing we mere humans can do about it.

[The Blitherer]

"The situation is at least a million billion times worse than I first suspected!"

[Mark17]

Sounds like NASA is after a nice funding bill from the dems in Congress.

Bingo. I think you hit the nail on the head.

[BuffaloJack]

Bull-doodi !!!

[ZGuy]

I worked for NASA for 12 years and can tell you that I had conversations with the chief scientist and, to put it bluntly, he said this global warming mania is all a crock and that his greatest frustration was dealing with researchers who kept finding “proof” of anthropogenic global warming ONLY because they knew that’s where the money was. Period.

[Young Werther]

Warning! Warning!

Doomsday Asteroid