Climate science update: from bad to worse (7C degrees temperature rise, 3 foot sea level rise.)

AFP on Yahoo ^ | 11/24/09 | Marlowe Hood

[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.

[Old Professer]

Bigger than that — a factory.

[pietraynor]

You wack job liberals have been telling me the temps are going up and the seas are rising for years now. Well I’m still waiting, freezing my butt off, looking for my ocean front property to magically appear. Maybe one more day, just one more day and it will happen. NOT

[20 years too late]

Thanks, I should have used sarc after my comment, but in seriousness what plant does the AP reside on?

[SideoutFred]

Koolaid junk science mix

[RoadGumby]

well, MY research shows the earth could heat up by 10 degrees by next summer!! And all the deposited snow and ice will go AWAY!!!!

But, before that happens, clouds will come, and the days will shorten, PLANTS WILL DIE!! It’ll get cold (women and children, not to mention butterflies hit hardest).

[The Citizen Soldier]

Seem the Warmers figured out they holding a crap hand and have decided to go ‘all in’ instead of folding.

I love it when that happens and I have flopped "the nuts." hehehehe

[The Comedian]

"They're on to us! Quick, lie faster and harder!!"

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[Joan Kerrey]

“dozen-beer” theory. -------------------------- I tested this theory also and noted that the temperature difference was directly related to the time of day and time of year that beer at room temperature was taken outside. In my trials in January and at night the beer got colder, not warmer so the theory turns out to be junk science and the evidence tainted. And don't call me a flat earther. /s

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

I think that I have heard that the ice restraining the WAIS, West Antarctic Ice Sheet, is breaking up. This will allow ice to flow into the ocean at greater rates. I have also seen it suggested that there may be active vulcanism under the ice sheet that melts the ice resulting in water that lubricates the bottom of the sheet and causes greater flow. When the ice sheet enters the ocean and melts it would raise sea levels.

If this really becomes a problem and we lose say, Florida, then we dig a trench at the northern end of the great rift vally in Africa and flood it. Central Africa is pretty dry and I suspect that the inhabitants would probably be happy to get some fish in their diet and a little rain from the new inland ocean.

[xp38]

The highest tides in the world are in the Bay of Fundy between Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. They deal with up to a 50 foot rise and fall in sea level daily. Somehow they survive.

[Dixie Yooper]

That's only because the rise in our oceans (from melting ice) is offset by water lost when our oceans drain off the edge of the world.

I was thinking of the possibility that Global Warming was causing the all extra water from ice cap melt to evaporate.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

“Nopenhagen”

I love it.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[rfp1234]

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...

...and Rosie O'Donnell could be the next Pope.

...and Matt Millen could become NFL Commissioner.

...and Satan could lace up his skates and pirouette around the Infernal Ice-rink.

[machogirl]

We could offer the Somali Pirates “carbon credits” as the ransom.

[machogirl]

Wonder how many kids are going to put that down as an answer on a test?

[machogirl]

Buy carbon credits? hahaha

[machogirl]

Gore dressed like a chicken could be entertaining.

[GOPJ]

I like the one where “scientists” say the oceans will boil...

[GOPJ]

I like the one where “scientists” say the oceans will boil...