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Bush adviser: Humans caused climate change
UPI Via ScienceDaily ^ | September 14, 2007

Posted on 09/19/2007 3:16:34 PM PDT by Constitutionalist Conservative

LONDON, Sept. 14 (UPI) -- John Marburger, one of U.S. President George Bush's scientific advisers, said climate change is real and was likely caused by humanity.

The presidential science adviser said that he was more than 90 percent certain that the current state of climate change was the direct result of greenhouse gas emissions caused by humans, the BBC reported Friday.

The Office of Science and Technology Policy director also said that without significant cuts in the output of carbon dioxide worldwide, the Earth may one day become "unlivable."

"The CO2 accumulates in the atmosphere and there's no end point, it just gets hotter and hotter, and so at some point it becomes unlivable," Marburger said.

Marburger's comments support a recent review from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change of the status of Earth's climate.

The BBC said Marburger's alarming comments come as a series of significant meetings regarding climate change are set to take place in Washington and at the United Nations.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agw; bushadministration; carbondioxide; climatechange; co2; doomage; globalwarming; greenhouseeffect; johnmarburger; lookingforalegacy; ostp; presidentbush; science; wearedoomed
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To: Plutarch

Did somebody spike your coffee with LSD? Marburger is following Thompson’s lead. Are you blind? Did you not rwad your own post???

Thompson said, I think that we don’t know how much yet. There are a lot of other things we don’t know.” Marburgers conviction is diametrically opposed to Thompson’s clear doubt.

Time for a trip to the optometrist...


41 posted on 09/19/2007 5:49:12 PM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free

Anyone remember the question about the falling tree and the desert?

If no one was present on the Earth and the temperature rose would there be global warming?


42 posted on 09/19/2007 5:51:59 PM PDT by crazyshrink
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To: Constitutionalist Conservative

Sad.


43 posted on 09/19/2007 8:44:40 PM PDT by cogitator (Welcome to my world!)
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To: Constitutionalist Conservative
John Marburger, one of U.S. President George Bush's scientific advisers, said climate change is real and was likely caused by humanity.

So Bush has a science advisor who is as stupid as Democrats claim Bush is.
44 posted on 09/19/2007 8:46:54 PM PDT by aruanan
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To: Constitutionalist Conservative
"The CO2 accumulates in the atmosphere and there's no end point, it just gets hotter and hotter, and so at some point it becomes unlivable," Marburger said.

Is this guy insane or what?
45 posted on 09/19/2007 8:48:28 PM PDT by aruanan
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To: jonrick46
It would really be insane if auto emmissions caused 5% of the total CO2 levels.

From what I read coming from climate research done by UVA, ALL human activity accounts for 2-3% of the atmospheric CO2.

Besides, I like warm, not cold. Fewer people die during hot spells than cold ones, and if we have to heat our homes less, won't THAT decrease CO2 output?

Personally, I think ALL these "globAL warming" alarmist are full of $***!

46 posted on 09/20/2007 2:55:26 AM PDT by dirtbiker (I'm a liberal's worst nightmare: a redneck with a pickup, a library card, and a conceal carry permit)
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To: Beowulf

ping


47 posted on 09/21/2007 4:33:31 AM PDT by steelyourfaith
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