Love, Al
Posted on 05/08/2010 3:37:16 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – More than 250 U.S. scientists on Thursday defended climate change research against "political assaults" and warned that any delay in tackling global warming heightens the risk of a planet-wide catastrophe.
The scientists, all members of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, targeted critics who have urged postponing any action against climate change because of alleged problems with research shown in a series of hacked e-mails that are collectively known as "climate-gate."
"When someone says that society should wait until scientists are absolutely certain before taking any action, it is the same as saying society should never take action," the 255 scientists wrote in an open letter in the journal Science.
"For a problem as potentially catastrophic as climate change, taking no action poses a dangerous risk for our planet," they wrote. They said they were deeply disturbed by "recent escalation of political assaults on scientists in general and on climate scientists in particular."
Scientists sounded a similar note on Thursday before the U.S. House of Representatives panel on energy independence and climate change.
"The reality of anthropogenic climate change can no longer be debated on scientific grounds," James Hurrell of the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research told the committee. "The imperative is to act aggressively to reduce carbon emissions and dependency on fossil fuels."
U.S. legislation aimed at cutting climate-warming pollution could be unveiled in the Senate next week.
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Show Me The Grant Money!!!
They just can’t give it a rest, can they?
BUT...give them enough Grant Money and they will prove it....
Then they'll croak
....and someone will disprove the provable...
and others will get Grant Money to prove that he didn't disprove it
And we're all Neanderthals as of this week!!!
I find it hilarious how these morons love to regurgitate their tired, old “energy independence” bull****! It’s a bigger crock than their “global cooling/global warming/climate change” scam. Denying the American people access to our natural resources isn’t what I’d call “energy independence”.
The SKY is WARMING!
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bttt
“political assaults”
Yes, but it’s been political from the beginning. If you’re going to play that game, then don’t be surprised when the opposition does as well.
Love, Al
What exactly has science done for us lately?
Their letter, from the Pacific Institute, is nothing but propaganda, which is a just a continuation of all they have presented.
Hte actual rise in temp is much less than they claim. No one can consistently sense within 4 degrees F and that means other organisms are just as well adapted. Also, ~4 degrees F is 2K.
The average temp. of the Earth is 288K. The new total energy is 290K, if there's a 2K rise in T. That means there's only a 0.7% increase in the total energy of the system. According to the equipartition of energy principle, that means there'll only be a 0.7% increase in the average storm intensity, climate shift, or any other event.
Their claims are simply falsehoods and half truths presented as propaganda for the purpose of gaining control of political and economic decisions in general, and of the energy supply in particular.
Provided y'all with the knowledge and understanding to live long lives in the first world.
So far, it just seems like a minor a$$-kicking of a few persistent moles who won’t just go back into their holes and get on with life.
It snowed here last week and it`s gonna snow tonight. That`s what I get for mowing the lawn.
Boy, this story is getting wide publication. The press can really spread the word when they want to.
Of course, you will never see a “skeptic’s” article get distributed and spread around like this in the MSM.
What ever it was it was not science because no peer review.
“The reality of anthropogenic climate change can no longer be debated on scientific grounds,” James Hurrell of the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research told the committee.”
I believe this statement to be the honest-to-God truth. After all, there would have to be some ‘science’ involved for a debate on scientific grounds to occur.
As I understand it, global warming of the type pushed by warmists means significantly higher temperatures in the Arctic and very similar temperatures in the tropics.
The severity of the storms is driven primarily by the difference in temperature of these areas, not by the absolute temperature.
So global warming should in theory result in less severe storms.
But I thought the Precautionary Principle required no action be taken until we are absolutely sure it won't have negative consequences?
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