I may be mistaken but that amount is surely within their margin of error. And of course, this is assuming temperature records 70-80-90 years ago are as accurate as today.
Plus, how much of that 1.3 degree rise has been created by the heat islands of cities?
Eleven of the last 12 years are among the warmest since 1850
Again, they are assuming temperature readings were as accurate 150 years ago as they are now.
Plus, we were still coming out of what was called the little ice age back in 1850.
Sea levels have gone up by an average seven-hundredths of an inch per year since 1961
Okay, lets use their numbers: If sea levels have gone up .07 of an inch in 46 years, during which time the temp has supposedly gone up maybe 1 degree F, even if we have a 5 degree rise, that would add another 1/3 of an inch to sea levels?
Human activity is largely responsible for warming.
Utter and complete nonsense. The biggest contributors to global warming are the Sun and natural climate cycles.
North Americans will experience longer and hotter heat waves and greater competition for water.
Isn't that convenient? We have known for decades that water was going to become a huge problem, especially in the Western USA. And this is mainly due to huge population increases. But NOW they can claim that they predicted it because of man made global warming.
More pollution could bring "abrupt and irreversible" changes, such as the loss of ice sheets in the poles
Well, recent events obviously contradict that statement. While the Arctic has experienced a diminished ice sheet the last couple of years, the Antarctic ice sheet is now the thickest ever recorded, more than compensating for the ice loss in the arctic. But, lets not let facts get in the way.
You got to hand it to politicians: They will always come up with ways to excuse their confiscating more and more of our money through taxes, fees, fines, licenses, etc.
Since the end of the last big ice age, about 11500 years ago, the sea has risen 400 feet or so. So why wouldn’t you expect the sea to be rising if the temperature has been rising since the last little ice age?
It’s called common sense, something the UN and their programs don’t have. Anyone remember how it went with the UN’s Oil for WMDs during the Iraq sanctions? How many UN members got rich? How many took bribes? And how well Saddam Hussein had stocked up for the day the inspectors left. What did that FBI guy say — Something like Saddam had what he needed to build a nuke warhead within a year after the inspectors were gone.
CO2 just makes more and bigger plants and lots more animals. Why is that bad?
Anytime someone says UN, it causes me to get all giggly.
Okay, lets use their numbers: If sea levels have gone up .07 of an inch in 46 years, during which time the temp has supposedly gone up maybe 1 degree F, even if we have a 5 degree rise, that would add another 1/3 of an inch to sea levels?
Well yes, but use their numbers accurately...:^)
0.07 inch per year for 46 years is 3.22 inches
But I thought this sea level rise measurement was even more “nebulous” and under debate than the temperature numbers.