Report says humans mostly responsible for global warming

Link to original story:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060622/ap_on_sc/global_warming

So this can't be true.

They should just shut up and sit down, so we call all Assume the Position and listen to BushCo's Armageddon All-Star Faith-Based Science Propagandists...

:P

Don't be passing on all this factual shit. Tune in to limbaugh and get with the program.

I mean anyone on the other side of the aisle, of course... they're pretty much the only ones still clinging desperately to all the oil companies'/their leaders' lies, aren't they?

(so what are you even talking about?)
Please do not bother us with this lieberal propaganda anymore. God gave us the oil and the coal, which are not from dinosaurs living millions of years ago, but exist because He wanted us to have SUVs and airconditioning, and we have dominion over them in perpetuity. We can burn oil and coal as much as we like. In the next world it won't matter what temperature this one is at.

Don't you know ? Global warming IS real and it's caused by the ever-increasing Hellfire and Damnation, caused by gays, pre-marital sex, abortion, etc.

Oh, and flag-burning is also a major contributor to global warming, too, hence the immediate need for a constitutional amendment against it. :sarcasm:

:eyes: what a non-story (no offense to the op)

We know it's a non-story, but maybe Congress will have to listen now.

That will make a lot of difference in political. Logic says it shouldn't. Politics says it will.

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rawstory has repackaged this story. Could you link to the original source.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060622/ap_on_sc/global_warming

Thanks

I've updated my original to just contain a link to the Yahoo story, which I didn't know about when I posted.

Sorry!

reporting.
:thumbsup:

WASHINGTON - Weighing in on the highest profile debate about global warming, the nation's premier science policy body on Thursday voiced a "high level of confidence" that Earth is the hottest it has been in at least 400 years, possibly even longer.

A panel convened by the National Research Council reached that conclusion in a broad review of scientific studies, reporting that the evidence indicates “recent warmth is unprecedented for at least the last 400 years.”

The panel of top climate scientists told lawmakers that the Earth is running a fever and that “human activities are responsible for much of the recent warming.” Their 155-page report said average global surface temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere rose about 1 degree during the 20th century.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13474997/

Man, we gotta do something.....

from denial to acceptance, it's a start.

From July, 2005:



http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/21/AR2005072102186.html

we go jumping to any liberal-based conclusions. WE MUST STUDY MORE. FOR YEARS AND YEARS.
Sincerely,
ExxonMobilShellTexaco.

That must explain it.

sixty years. They are blaming it on La Nina but it is very unpleasant after the last several really nice warm springs. :shrug: Our major glacier though The Mendenhall Glacier is receding by over three hundred feet a year. Two years ago it lost over six hundred feet.

"Study: Earth likely hottest in 2,000 years"

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/06/22/global.warming.ap/index.html

know? Senator Inhofe told me when he said that global warming is "the biggest hoax ever perpetrated on mankind". :eyes: http://inhofe.senate.gov/pressreleases/climateupdate.htm

With people like Ihofe in the world, I fear for my daughters future.

WASHINGTON - It has been 2,000 years and possibly much longer since the Earth has run such a fever. The National Academy of Sciences, reaching that conclusion in a broad review of scientific work requested by Congress, reported Thursday that the "recent warmth is unprecedented for at least the last 400 years and potentially the last several millennia."

A panel of top climate scientists told lawmakers that the Earth is heating up and that "human activities are responsible for much of the recent warming." Their 155-page report said average global surface temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere rose about 1 degree during the 20th century.

This is shown in boreholes, retreating glaciers and other evidence found in nature, said Gerald North, a geosciences professor at Texas A&M University who chaired the academy's panel.

The report was requested in November by the chairman of the House Science Committee, Rep. Sherwood Boehlert (news, bio, voting record), R-N.Y., to address naysayers who question whether global warming is a major threat.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060622/ap_on_sc/global_warming

Nothing to see Move along

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Blame it on Clinton's BJ

Blame it on Monika's thong, which when snapped changed the rotation of the earth

Seismic activity

All those volcanoes can't be good. With all the CO2 they release.

I moved to Denver 7 years ago because all records said it was temperate......well so much for history

quote.......
Climate scientists say this month's shockingly early heat wave may provide a glimpse into Denver's future.
The temperature at Denver International Airport reached or surpassed 90 degrees on 12 of the first 14 days in June, according to the National Weather Service.

The hot spell included seven straight days of 90-or-higher temperatures, marking the earliest such streak since recordkeeping began in 1872. The mercury hit 102 last Wednesday, a record for the date and the earliest triple-digit temperature ever for Denver.

"My perception is that I've never seen it this hot at this time of year," said assistant state climatologist Nolan Doesken.

"It's not ridiculously uncommon for late June to early July, but it is very unusual at the beginning of June," said Doesken, who will take over as state climatologist on July 1.

snip....
Some changes in Denver temperatures are already apparent, said University of Colorado climatologist Klaus Wolter. But it's unclear if human activities, such as the burning of fossil fuels, are to blame, he said.

Springs and summers have warmed in Denver over the past decade, with the biggest temperature increases in March and July, Wolter said.

Eight of the past 10 Denver springs (defined by climatologists as the months of March, April and May) and nine of the past 10 Julys were warmer than the long-term average at the former Stapleton International Airport in Denver, Wolter said.


end quote.....

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_4784724,00.html

Go planet!

is down here in Houston which is usually in the high 90's and 100's
its not that high where other places are... Its like because of this warming the planet is heating up in areas which were KNOWN to be temperate... WAKE UP PEOPLE this is going to have ramifications!!!

it's just going to take a couple more decades for us all to lay down.

Question: How many people died as a result of the heat wave?

Klinenberg: In 1995 there were no uniform standards for determining a "heat related death," so officials had to develop them. Edmund Donoghue, Cook County's chief medical examiner, used state-of-the-art criteria to report 465 heat-related deaths for the heat wave week and 521 heat deaths for the month of July. But Mayor Richard M. Daley challenged these findings. "It's hot," the mayor told the media. "But let's not blow it out of proportion. . . . Every day people die of natural causes. You cannot claim that everybody who has died in the last eight or nine days dies of heat. Then everybody in the summer that dies will die of heat."
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/443213in.html

Somepeople can take the heat..I never could. I feel sick when the temperature hits 85

Even in the Pacific Northwest (where a lot of the older homes don't have air conditioning) the number of hot days could go from 3-4 to more than a dozen per year. In southern Ontario, where I'm from, we have heat waves that last for a week or more ... but in the future, we could be looking at more than a month of that kind of thing. (I know what you mean about feeling ill when it gets too hot ... one reason why I moved. And one of my co-workers has migraines which are triggered by high temperatures -- he turned down a lucrative job offer in Montreal because of that.)

There is actually a form of depression which is linked with hot, humid weather. While the winter type of Seasonal Affective Disorder is pretty well understood now (brought on by shorter day length during the winter), there is also a summer form which is not as widespread, but likely would be worsened by higher summer temperatures. And of course, the people who couldn't afford to go on holiday to cooler places, or have air conditioning, would be stuck with it.

An earlier poster from Alaska said it was cooler there anyway. I sure don't understand it..

...above Sea Level. That is way too hot for Atlanta in June!

from '87 to '97 and saw the heat go up every year...now I'm seeing it in Denver...WHERE is my next stop....I need to live in 70 degree most of the year. I would take 30 degrees OVER 90 degrees any day....any affordable re-location recommendations?

I'm not sure how high they are above Sea Level or what the winters are like, but I bet they are getting warmer every year.

I want a place that is getting colder. VC would never take me..I'm too old!

ANY reputable source says the same thing. While the mainstream press lags far behind.

season. One tropical storm has already passed overhead. Now the Jacksonville, Fl. weather man says the storm right off the coast is showing signs of circulation and will be moving this way in a few days. That would be 2 in June. Its getting an early start.

cut by half if clean technology applied: IEA

"Oil and electricity consumption across the world could easily be cut by half, with major benefits for the environment, if clean energy technologies that are currently available were applied, an international watchdog said.

"A sustainable energy future is possible, but only if we act urgently and decisively to promote, develop and deploy a full mix of energy technologies... We have the means, now we need the will," said Claude Mandil, executive director of the International Energy Agency (IEA).

He was presenting an IEA report written in response to a call last year from G8 leaders who asked the agency to develop and advise on alternative scenarios and strategies for a clean, clever and competitive energy future."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/ieag8energytechnology;_ylt=As9OkoPCGDLFUvIbjixKsEYDW7oF;_ylu=X3oDMTBhcmljNmVhBHNlYwNtcm5ld3M-


That's just smart! Anyone should be able to see that!

And here I am thinking that it was the chipmunks.

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