Posted on 11/24/2009 12:43:02 PM PST by NormsRevenge
PARIS (AFP) The planet could warm by seven degrees Celsius (10.8 degrees Fahrenheit) and sea levels could rise by more than a metre (3.25 feet) by 2100, scenarios that just two years ago were viewed as improbable, scientists said on Tuesday.
In the widest overview on global warming since a landmark report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report in 2007, the authors said manoeuvering room for tackling the carbon crisis was now almost exhausted.
The 64-page "Copenhagen Diagnosis" aims at the December 7-18 UN conference in Denmark, tasked with forging a planet-wide deal on greenhouse-gas emissions.
"This is a final scientific call for climate negotiators from 192 countries who must embark on the climate protection train in Copenhagen," said Hans Schellnhuber, director of Germany's Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), which oversaw the paper.
"They need to know the stark truth about global warming and the unprecedented risks involved," he said.
The scientists billed the summary as "an interim scientific evaluation" between the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report, known as AR4, and its next big handbook, due in 2013. Several authors were part of that Nobel-winning group.
New evidence published in peer-reviewed scientific literature suggests many of the estimates published in 2007 are too low, the "Copenhagen Diagnosis" suggested.
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We'll lock them in a tank with the temperature 12.6F above room temperature (72 F), with 3 ft of water at the same temperature. Since we're all going to starve in their future world, we won't give them food, and since they have water, there's no need to give them any more. They're back to nature types, so they won't need a bathroom either. We'll give them, oh, a month of this and see what conclusions they draw.
(grin)
1 degree C = 1.8 degrees F
Any sixth grader should be able to call them on that one...
10.8 degrees F = 6 degrees C.
Could it be that they just sneaked in another degree (Celsius) of phoney "Gorebull Warming" -- just by publishing another hokey number they figured no one would check?
Ummmm... Plant Cannabis? ;-}
Now that’s a carbon credit program that I might be able to live with. ;-)
LOL! Love it!
I suspect an idiot reporter / editor more than a malicious intent there.
Still, it does one's credibility no good to claim that 7C = 10.8 F
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