Posted on 11/01/2011 8:50:00 AM PDT by mdittmar
WASHINGTON (AP) — Freakish weather disasters — from the sudden October snowstorm in the Northeast U.S. to the record floods in Thailand — are striking more often. And global warming is likely to spawn more similar weather extremes at a huge cost, says a draft summary of an international climate report obtained by The Associated Press.
The final draft of the report from a panel of the world's top climate scientists paints a wild future for a world already weary of weather catastrophes costing billions of dollars. The report says costs will rise and perhaps some locations will become "increasingly marginal as places to live."
The report from the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will be issued in a few weeks, after a meeting in Uganda. It says there is at least a 2-in-3 probability that climate extremes have already worsened because of man-made greenhouse gases.
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Quick! Shut down all coal generated power plants, NOW!
The sky is falling, the sky is falling shouts Chicken Little.
I thought when Baraq was elected, the rise of the oceans began to slow and the earth began to heal?
Snow, in October, in the Northeastern U.S., is a “freak weather disaster?”
Uh-huh! Has goverment ever really solved a long-term problem? Other than War, I mean? The Nobel Committee needs to clean house so they don't endorse this kind of politically-motivated psuedo-scientific drivel.
(”Thailand is now coping with massive flooding”)
Whu, wha .. Where?
a bunch of BS. Weather has had cycles since time began.
Do not buy this nonsense!!!
Man the bicycles!,all hands to the “Green Jobs”!
On another note, why do global warming alarmists always meet in hot places, Uganda?
But when Obama is voted out of office it will bring eternal spring throughout the world, Democrats will become mute and all but invisible and Islamists will piss gasoline.
Global warming is causing this? What rubbish. Higher temperature deltas between the higher and lower latitudes is what causes this sort of weather behavior, aka, arctic and antarctic cooling. Wonder what causes that? (refer to my about page).
I’ll throw ya’ in some styrofoam. ;-)
It would seem to me that instead of trying to control the weather, on the chance that the Earth might actually be going thru a periodic climate change (hey, it does happen, it’s not caused by man since most of them have happened without man in the picture at all), we might actually simply be trying to figure out how best to maximize our lifestyle in case of things like colder temps, warmer temps, more rain, less rain, etc. But then again, that wouldn’t allow politicians to control the population....
Are they paying carbon credits to algore?
****It says there is at least a 2-in-3 probability that climate extremes have already worsened because of man-made greenhouse gases.****
I am reminded of the Great Blizards of 1888, on the high plains and in NYC.
Then the heat waves in NYC from 1879-1905.
Then the great high plains heat of 1934-1939.
And who can forget 1954! It was as hot then as it was this year!
And the Donner Party,1846,Those horses put out alot of greenhouse gases!
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