Posted on 02/05/2010 7:28:48 AM PST by wzevonfan
Global emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases rise every year, and within decades are expected to hit a worrisome atmospheric concentration threshold of 450 parts per million. At that point, there's a high probability that average global temperatures will be at least 2 degrees Celsius higher than they were in 1850 (they're already 1 C higher). Our children would live in a world of mass migrations, wars and conflicts fueled by scarce water supplies, infrastructure destruction as rising sea levels swallow coastlines, extreme weather events, wildfires and increased poverty and disease. These are not the predictions of wild-eyed liberal pundits but of thousands of climate researchers around the world, along with organizations such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the U.S. Global Change Research Program and the National Academies of Sciences.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Many (I think more than half) of the comments are actually good! Of course, there is some proportion of “true believers” — like the one who hypothesizes that GW caused a rise in sea levels, raising the water table and causing the Indonesian and Haitian earthquakes . . .
The comics and the ads are the only parts with truth in them.
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Thanks E.
Amen...
I had a vision of Armageddon last night as I visualized glaciers extending down to Nashville ending life on earth by 2012...
Their scared shitless the box has been open. Either that, or one such as wrote this article is a moron. Simple parrot.
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