Posted on 12/25/2008 2:26:21 PM PST by PROCON
New Report Points to Accelerated Melting, Longer Drought The United States faces the possibility of much more rapid climate change by the end of the century than previous studies have suggested, according to a new report led by the U.S. Geological Survey.
The survey -- which was commissioned by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and issued this month -- expands on the 2007 findings of the United Nations Intergovernment Panel on Climate Change. Looking at factors such as rapid sea ice loss in the Arctic and prolonged drought in the Southwest, the new assessment suggests that earlier projections may have underestimated the climatic shifts that could take place by 2100.
However, the assessment also suggests that some other feared effects of global warming are not likely to occur by the end of the century, such as an abrupt release of methane from the seabed and permafrost or a shutdown of the Atlantic Ocean circulation system that brings warm water north and colder water south. But the report projects an amount of potential sea level rise during that period that may be greater than what other researchers have anticipated, as well as a shift to a more arid climate pattern in the Southwest by mid-century.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Not this $h!t again Ping!
All you have to do is look out the window and see that this is BS.
It’s freaking hot in Tucson and we get very little winter. That’s climate change? This isn’t even believable propaganda.
Here in Corvallis, all our snow is gone, due to global warming./S
Computer models with a sleigh full of “IFs”.
Bah humbug!
This is about the hardest concept to imagine. How much warming would it take to reach to the ocean depths?
Hahahaha oh dear God. Sometimes one can only laugh at fools.
The lunatics are now in full charge of the asylum.
Yes and just wait til Inauguration Day + 1...:=(
The other way around works just as well.
“Start calling all Global Warming Liars idiots.”
The survey -- which was commissioned by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program....
Here we go again....basing their new findings on old ones which have already been proven to be FALSE.
This can't be the work of real scientists...unless they are forced to endorse this crap to keep the government grants coming to be able to put food on their tables.
“the new assessment suggests that earlier projections may have underestimated the climatic shifts that could take place by 2100. “
Notice how they just keep moving that ‘marker’ further and further down the road?
Whatever happened to the ‘20 foot rise’ of the oceans by 2010?
BS....
What is this, science by polling? If ‘x’ numbers of whacko alarmists that something is so, it is!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
