Posted on 08/29/2010 8:04:59 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
A review due on Monday can help restore public faith in the United Nations panel of climate scientists and its finding that global warming is man made despite errors in a 2007 report, the UN's environment chief said.
Achim Steiner-Wank also said extreme weather in 2010, such as floods in Pakistan or Russia's heatwave, were a "stark warning" of the need to act to slow global warming, as outlined by the UN panel.
He said he would be surprised if the review, spurred by mistakes in a 2007 report such as an exaggeration of the thaw of Himalayan glaciers, called for any radical overhaul of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
He said he had not seen the IAC report and would only get a copy 30 minutes before its release. He said those who were sceptical that global warming is man made had seized on a few mistakes to challenge the entire IPCC.
"There is a climate of doubt and uncertainty that has been created," Mr Steiner-Wank said. "This is not justified".
The IPCC shared the 2007 Nobel peace prize with US climate campaigner Al Gore.
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A new review,by the same old people telling us the same old thing, Yes, that will surely change my mind and make me in favor of killing all mankind in order to save the planet.
How about outright fraud and blatant junk science with the objective of a multi-billion dollar cash return when crap and tax is made global law???
Another “peer-reviewed”...and skewed...AGW science report? Say it ain’t so...... =.=
Yeah, cuz there has never been a flood in Pakistan before this, and Russia's always been known to have a temperate clime.
This phrase says it all. Little about science and all about faith. If we can only get the little people to believe in this scam...
Their agenda is to trash sovereignty and control our lands, our lives, and above all, our money.
Keep your heads in the sand, Repubs, minorities, and just plain don't care sheeple.
vaudine
Perfect!This bunch of Fake,Phony,Frauds thinks(after only 150-years of records)that they have determined that climate-change is directly linked to the activities of mankind!They admit that the earth is at least 4-billion years old which means 150-years is the blink of an eye.This enviro-wacko movement is ALL about two things:Money and a Hatred of MANKIND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Less than 1/2 of one degree increase in temperature. And much of that appears Mann-made based on urban heat islands, new airport thermometers, and false comparisions between Arctic sites extended artificially out over the sea and into the middle of Greenland.
Meanwhile, the Arctic summer temperatures at 80 degree north latitude show a steady cooling trend since 1958, and shortly (within 20-32 years) will not even get above the freezing point of water even at mid-summer.
(Bolivia had almost a thousand penguin deaths - and several hundred human deaths - from cold weather this year, most of Russia (though not the Moscow region) showed below-average temperatures all summer......
Too late!
Do they have penguins in landlocked Bolivia? I don't know, a quick google/altavista search doesn't turn up anything.
Oh sure, just ask the Wehrmacht soldiers in the summers of 41 & 42 how cold the summers were in Russia.
Bolivia had almost a thousand penguin deathsDo they have penguins in landlocked Bolivia? I don't know, a quick google/altavista search doesn't turn up anything.
Darn professional engineers! You just don't understand subtle. You just don't understand nuance. I mean, landlocked, smandlocked. We're talking about nearly one thousand dead penguins. The simple inhumanity of it demands action.
"Antarctic cold snap kills millions of aquatic animals in the Amazon.
Anna Petherick
With high Andean peaks and a humid tropical forest, Bolivia is a country of ecological extremes. But during the Southern Hemisphere’s recent winter, unusually low temperatures in part of the country’s tropical region hit freshwater species hard, killing an estimated 6 million fish and thousands of alligators, turtles and river dolphins.
Scientists who have visited the affected rivers say the event is the biggest ecological disaster Bolivia has known, and, as an example of a sudden climatic change wreaking havoc on wildlife, it is unprecedented in recorded history.
“There’s just a huge number of dead fish,” says Michel Jégu, a researcher from the Institute for Developmental Research in Marseilles, France, who is currently working at the Noel Kempff Mercado Natural History Museum in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. “In the rivers near Santa Cruz there’s about 1,000 dead fish for every 100 metres of river.”
With such extreme climatic events potentially becoming more common due to climate change, scientists are hurrying to coordinate research into the impact, and how quickly the ecosystem is likely to recover.
The extraordinary quantity of decomposing fish flesh has polluted the waters of the Grande, Pirai and Ichilo rivers to the extent that local authorities have had to provide alternative sources of drinking water for towns along the rivers’ banks. Many fishermen have lost their main source of income, having been banned from removing any more fish from populations that will probably struggle to recover.
The blame lies, at least indirectly, with a mass of Antarctic air that settled over the Southern Cone of South America for most of July. The prolonged cold snap has also been linked to the deaths of at least 550 penguins along the coasts of Brazil and thousands of cattle in Paraguay and Brazil, as well as hundreds of people in the region.
Water temperatures in Bolivian rivers that normally register about 15 ˚C during the day fell to as low as 4 ˚C.
Hugo Mamani, head of forecasting at Senamhi, Bolivia’s national weather centre, confirms that the air temperature in the city of Santa Cruz fell to 4 ˚C this July, a low beaten only by a record of 2.5 ˚C in 1955.
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