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Climate change could be even worse than feared (Just what the left ordered, more fear and doom)
AFP on Yahoo ^ | 2/14/09 | Mira Oberman

Posted on 02/14/2009 6:25:29 PM PST by NormsRevenge

CHICAGO (AFP) – It seems the dire warnings about future devastation sparked by global warming have not been dire enough, top climate scientists warned Saturday.

It has been just over a year since the Nobel-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published a landmark report warning of rising sea levels, expanding deserts, more intense storms and the extinction of up to 30 percent of plant and animal species.

But recent climate studies suggest that report significantly underestimates the potential severity of global warming over the next 100 years, a senior member of the panel warned.

"We are basically looking now at a future climate that is beyond anything that we've considered seriously in climate policy," said Chris Field, who was a coordinating lead author of the report.

"Without effective action, climate change is going to be larger and more difficult to deal with than we thought."

Fresh data has shown that greenhouse gas emissions have grown by an average of 3.5 percent a year from 2000 to 2007, Field told reporters at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

That's "far more rapid than we expected" and more than three times the 0.9 growth rate in the 1990's, he said.

While increased economic activity could have contributed to the growth in emissions, Field said it appears as though the bulk of the growth is "because developing countries like China and India saw a huge upsurge in electric power generation, almost all of it based on coal."

Further complicating the problem is that higher temperatures could thaw the Arctic tundra and ignite tropical forests, potentially releasing billions of tons of carbon dioxide ..

That could raise temperatures even more and create "a vicious cycle that could spiral out of control by the end of the century."

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: climatechange; feared; globalwarming; ipcc
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To: headsonpikes

You too eh? I wasn’t going to tell anyone that God told me that.


21 posted on 02/14/2009 7:05:13 PM PST by Nathan Zachary
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To: Nathan Zachary

Let it be a secret between the three of us!

For now....


22 posted on 02/14/2009 7:07:14 PM PST by headsonpikes (Genocide is the highest sacrament of socialism.)
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To: NormsRevenge
Further complicating the problem is that higher temperatures could ... ignite tropical forests, potentially releasing billions of tons of carbon dioxide ..

Well dang, we just need to start harvesting those tropical woods ASAP, before they all burn up. Putting them to good use is a form of sequestering their carbon content.

23 posted on 02/14/2009 7:14:13 PM PST by sionnsar (IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5(SONY)|http://trad-anglican.faithweb.com/|TaglineSpaceForRent)
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To: NormsRevenge
It has been just over a year since the Nobel-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)....

With this preamble to an article you just know what is to follow is pure unadulterated crap.

24 posted on 02/14/2009 7:14:36 PM PST by Mike Darancette (Stimulate this Obama!)
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To: NormsRevenge
Again, the crowd attending the Global Warming Conference was mesmerized.

Global warming protest
25 posted on 02/14/2009 7:14:49 PM PST by USAF70 (America is not 'governed' by the President or Congress. America is governed by the U.S.Constitution.)
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To: Dutch Boy

Perfect and right on. More analysis from computer models?


26 posted on 02/14/2009 7:25:19 PM PST by 1010RD (First Do No Harm)
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To: 1010RD

Nothing new at all; just a weekly reminder like the grocery store ads .


27 posted on 02/14/2009 7:33:40 PM PST by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, then writes again.)
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To: Old Professer

You mean like, “We’re coming for you.”?


28 posted on 02/14/2009 7:40:32 PM PST by 1010RD (First Do No Harm)
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To: NormsRevenge
Are you talking about the new ICE AGE?

Global warming ended in 1998, where have you been?

29 posted on 02/14/2009 7:45:49 PM PST by BillT (New Executive Order to abolish the WS Constitution to be signed to save the US Constitution)
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To: NormsRevenge; Defendingliberty; Genesis defender; WL-law; Normandy; TenthAmendmentChampion; FrPR; ..
 



Beam Me to Planet Gore !

30 posted on 02/14/2009 7:50:59 PM PST by steelyourfaith (Hope + Change = PORKULU$)
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To: 1010RD

No, just sort of like those “GOING OUT FOR BUSINESS” sales that take up white space.


31 posted on 02/14/2009 7:52:29 PM PST by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, then writes again.)
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To: NormsRevenge

I think we need to take tree huggers and send them up there with the trees, Trees eat CO2 and produce O2, problem solved


32 posted on 02/14/2009 7:53:21 PM PST by Foolsgold ("We live in the greatest country in the world and I am going to change it" Barry O'boomarang 2008)
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To: NormsRevenge
The more hysterical they become is an indication of the more irrational they are.

They are losing and they know it.

33 posted on 02/14/2009 8:01:24 PM PST by RedMonqey (Arm yourself if you must. For your enemies surely will.)
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To: An Old Man

What is that?


34 posted on 02/14/2009 8:17:56 PM PST by razorback-bert (Save the planet...it is the only known one with beer!)
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To: NormsRevenge; steelyourfaith; All

The title should be “CO2 concentrations are greater than they expected”. The article isn’t about an underestimated global warming trends. Its about higher than expected CO2 concentrations. But that doesn’t grab headlines and government grants. They automaticly assume a connection between CO2 concentrations and global warming(hell they don’t even stick their necks out and call it global warming, leaving the door open in case we re-enter a new iceage I guess). They then go on to propose several doomsday scenarios of a very hot globe. The connection between CO2 concentrations and global warming hasn’t come close to being made. DON’T ACCEPT THE PREMISE that higher CO2 concentrations equal global warming.


35 posted on 02/14/2009 8:21:59 PM PST by Delacon ("The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." H. L. Mencken)
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To: dabluesman

I believe Genesis 8:22.


36 posted on 02/14/2009 8:23:01 PM PST by usslsm51
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To: Volunteer

Ojmjakon, Russia, Monday’s low -76 F.
Toko, Russia, Thursday’s low -83 F.

I bet they would like a little gobal warming!


37 posted on 02/14/2009 8:27:14 PM PST by usslsm51
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To: 1010RD

“Perfect and right on. More analysis from computer models?”

YES! Just like the computer models that predicted you’ll NEVER lose money on credit-default swaps!/s;)


38 posted on 02/14/2009 8:52:46 PM PST by Frank_2001
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To: Frank_2001

I get what you mean, but bad example.

It is true. I’ve never lost money on a CDS.;-]


39 posted on 02/14/2009 8:59:42 PM PST by 1010RD (First Do No Harm)
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To: RedMonqey
They are losing and they know it.

You are aware that Barak Obama is our President, the Dems control boht houses of Congress and Porkulus is poised to pass, right?

40 posted on 02/14/2009 9:03:57 PM PST by 1010RD (First Do No Harm)
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