Global warming seen worse than predicted (barf)

Reuters ^ | Feb. 14, 2009 | Julie Steenhuysen

[Free ThinkerNY]

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The climate is heating up far faster than scientists had predicted, spurred by sharp increases in greenhouse gas emissions from developing countries like China and India, a top climate scientist said on Saturday.

"The consequence of that is we are basically looking now at a future climate that is beyond anything that we've considered seriously," Chris Field, a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, told the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Chicago.

Field said "the actual trajectory of climate change is more serious" than any of the climate predictions in the IPCC's fourth assessment report called "Climate Change 2007."

[Free ThinkerNY]

[Question_Assumptions]

I guess that means they’re going with a “The Big Lie” strategy with Global Warming?

[Freedom_Isn't_Free]

"The consequence of that is we are basically looking now at a future climate that is beyond anything that we've considered seriously,"

WOW, You mean it's even worse than "We're all gonna die!!" ?

[lilylangtree]

These type of articles are making albore enormously wealthy.

[max americana]

Everybody all in unison: “We Are All Gonna Die!”

[gc4nra]

Long Beach, CA

Average high = 69 degrees F

Today = 57 degrees F

BS meter = 100%

Yep, it’s worse than we thought!

[Mr_Moonlight]

[Shady]

OK, so if China and India are to blame, why aren’t they under assault by the freakazoids?

[Mr_Moonlight]

"The consequence of that is we are basically looking now at a future climate that is beyond anything that we've considered seriously,"

Hooooo K ... anyone care to attempt to translate this into plain English?

[Renderofveils]

Marohasy: "No, actually, there has been cooling, if you take 1998 as your point of reference. If you take 2002 as your point of reference, then temperatures have plateaued. This is certainly not what you'd expect if carbon dioxide is driving temperature because carbon dioxide levels have been increasing but temperatures have actually been coming down over the last 10 years."

Duffy: "Is this a matter of any controversy?"

Marohasy: "Actually, no. The head of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) has actually acknowledged it. He talks about the apparent plateau in temperatures so far this century. So he recognises that in this century, over the past eight years, temperatures have plateaued ... This is not what you'd expect, as I said, because if carbon dioxide is driving temperature then you'd expect that, given carbon dioxide levels have been continuing to increase, temperatures should be going up ... So (it's) very unexpected, not something that's being discussed. It should be being discussed, though, because it's very significant."

-Jennifer Marohasy, biologist and senior fellow at Melbourne's Institute of Public Affairs.

[DaveyB]

anyone care to attempt to translate this into plain English?
Give us all your money -- oh and your women too!

[4Speed]

Hey FAST - SPEED IT UP just worked for the Stimulus Bill thru Congress......

Sounds like Global Warming is taking a cue and following success....

[wolfcreek]

Solution: Cease all life in China and India.

That oughta do it.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Then we need to have India and China to stop putting out so much CO2.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Somebody needs to tell these dumbasses that we’ve figured out their “global” scam and we aren’t buying it anymore. Time for them to all go out and find new careers. With the Commie ‘RATS in charge, the job market looks pretty good for con men.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[PORD]

I live in Iowa, Just got my energy bill, boy could I use some global warming.

[gc4nra]

msot of the CO2 produced comes from D.C. in the form of exhaled gases!

[Zeppo]

... a top climate scientist said on Saturday

Except that Chris Field is not 'a top climate scientist'. Rather, Chris Field is a professor of biological sciences. So how much confidence can one have in his pronouncements and predictions about future climate changes?

Field said "the actual trajectory of climate change is more serious" than any of the climate predictions in the IPCC's fourth assessment report called "Climate Change 2007."

Translated into plain English, that means, "the climate predictions in the IPCC's fourth assessment report were wrong". Yet rather than putting that fact into the headline, Reuters runs with the alarmist headline of "Global warming seen worse than predicted".

Those Reuters "journalists" must have been educated way beyond their native abilities. Otherwise, how could they have misunderstood something so important that is staring them in right the face, huh...

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

They should all go over to China and India, every last one of them, to protest, lobby, march on Peking and generally disrupt China's economy like they have over here.

They can do it! They need to be convinced that this needs to be done ASAP. They should stage sit-ins, block tanks in Tienanmen Square, spike trees and truck tires, just raise havoc. The Chinese will listen, yes they will.